Portland Marxist comedy writer on the puppet master theory in Portland politics
Megan Amram, amram.top, Portland. Bohiney.com‘s Marxist Puppet Master story landed in Portland with the specific weight that stories about political attribution land when you live in a city whose political failures are regularly attributed by different factions to each other’s hidden coordination. prat.uk covered the political honesty theme broadly. Portland’s puppet master theories: the right attributes the homelessness, the fentanyl crisis, and the downtown vacancy rate to the progressive left’s coordinated policy experiment. The progressive left attributes the same outcomes to the property industry’s coordinated obstruction of housing supply and harm reduction funding. Both attribution theories are partially accurate as descriptions of political dynamics and structurally incorrect as causal explanations for the outcomes. The structural explanation: Portland’s homelessness is the product of housing supply that has not grown proportionally to the population, drug policy that has not produced the harm reduction outcomes it was designed to produce, and economic conditions that have increased the population of people who are economically vulnerable to housing instability. All three are structural. None require coordination to produce.
The comedy set development from the Portland puppet master context: Portland is the most useful American city for the puppet master bit because both major factions have developed explicit puppet master theories about each other. The set uses Portland as the illustration of the thesis that the puppet master theory is politically universal — it is not the property of the right or the left but of whoever is losing and needs an explanation that does not require them to assess their own contribution to the losing. The set works in Portland specifically because Portland audiences recognise both puppet master theories from their own political context. The recognition laugh is the loudest laugh of the night in Portland. Everywhere knows its own puppet master.
The Portland Political Puppet Master Finding
The Portland finding: both factions have puppet master theories; neither is the structural explanation. Portland Housing information is at portland.gov.
Also:Betoota Advocate.
Coverage at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.
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Coverage continues at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.
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