Now that elections are rolling around, there's a lot more focus on the fact that Portland (Oregon) is on the front lines when it comes to working with refugees and their plight as such.
The business of an exclusionary economy is to create a throng of "losers" in its wake, but the inconvenient truth is we have sufficient know-how to deal with the problem more intelligently and with better planning.
That truth is inconvenient because now the old ways, involving morally righteous disposal, are ringing hollow. Especially when these are your neighbors. The attempt to turn this into a zombie apocalypse only works on the least thoughtful (the most in need of brains).
The link between refugee camps (caused by) and war programming (lethal theater) is pretty obvious. A lot of vets end up refugee, in their own country, so-called. They self medicate (use) and end up sick but without care. Yet we're at that point in human evolution where we know better, so the religious (again, so-called) often sound cruel and hollow, even in their own ears sometimes.
Fine tuning in and around Portland is something we're allowed to converse about in today's climate, given the sense there's almost no one in the political class up for thinking sufficiently like a social engineer (a term with a bad rep, even though social media jobs often involve quite a bit of engineering).
The race for the governor position is especially neck and neck and rhetoric about homelessness, the problem of, ring loudly in the halls of government, as transmitted by media. Ecotourists come through doing selfie-based travelogues, musing out loud about Portland the Laboratory (with its cast of human guinea pigs). Isn't that really any city though? Life is experimental in nature, especially in urban settings, but not only in those. That's what the science says anyway.
