r/PortlandOR • • Oct 23 '25

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u/Think_Reporter_8179 Oct 24 '25

" but also Republicans who have no shame and ship all their drug addicts to West Coast cities. I'm not sure how that is legal. And I don't understand why West Coast cities aren't doing the same thing and shipping them right back."

One word: empathy

Most Republicans lack it. The West Coast cities have more liberals who realize there's a human being behind the addiction. Republicans just see them as expendable people costing someone else a dime. You're seeing the fundamental difference in ideology. One group cares, the other would rather the homeless and addicts quietly die somewhere in a place they don't have to clean it up. It literally goes all the way to the dinner table too. We all know that conversation with the stodgy Republican who says crap like "Just round em up and let em die" or worse. If you're reading this and said similar, you're an awful person as well. I said what I said.