Long time readers know COTTonLINE takes a dim view of Oregon, and I'll add Washington state to that category. Specifically, the portions of both states west of the Cascade Range are liberal looney tunes country. East of the Cascades, things get a tad more sane, less nutso, and much less populated.
You might as well think of Portland as home of Antifa USA, though it exists elsewhere too. Now the freaks have taken over a section of downtown Seattle in the style of the Paris Commune. The northwest being what it is, instead of rousting the trouble-makers, or arresting them, they try to reason with them or find them charming.
And don't get me started on the weather west of the Cascades, eight months of more or less continuous leaden gray skies depresses people so much suicide becomes an option. If you watched Twin Peaks back in the day, you'll have noticed the absence of blue skies and the continuous jacket wearing outdoors. Both are realistic, neither is desirable.
