@ignatiusmusic Yeah I’m not sure who started it, but Reagan era really pushed it - “government is inefficient”, underfund an area, wait for it to eventually be failing, privatize, spend even more money to private contractors. Rinse, repeat.
@ignatiusmusic I had to stop reading it a while back (was probably right before pandemic hit). It just did not match my experience in Portland and felt like it was starting to ruin it.