Ex-Dem turned Independent. Betsy Johnson doesn’t pull punches.
Increasingly, voters are getting attracted to politicians who cast tact aside. (Trump made that approach politically viable with grassroot voters.)
So here we have a candidate who has taken the Portland moniker of “City of Roses” and changed it to “City of Roaches” because of how trashed that city is now. Crime. Tent cities. Garbage piles.
She has labeled one of her opponents, Tina Kotek, as “Tent City Tina”.
Rarely do independents prevail – especially at levels as high as Governor. But I see her making a lot of impact in this race.
My interest is in what a candidate stands for, endorses, and plans to do.
But we live in a twitter-style culture now. Too many people seem attracted to edginess in a candidate now. Thus my initial statement: “Increasingly, voters are getting attracted to politicians who cast tact aside.”
I wish there was some way to make these unhinged leftist voters actually pay for their choices. They keep voting for the commies because they know the state, feds, or their parents will bail them out and they won’t have to suffer. Let it turn into Pyongyang for a couple of years with no option of moving out and they’ll change their tunes.
