Amazing how /r/portland manages to have on lock the exact fraction percentage of the population that claims progressive positions but then votes for Wheeler and salivates about anarchists being brutalized because liberals hate the homeless infinitely more than anything else.
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Capitalism isn't a positive sum game, it's a mix of games some of which are and some of which aren't. Liberals believe that the world is essentially positive sum. Homelessness either demonstrates this is false or that every homeless person makes constant inexplicable mistakes
This is the problem with most Very Rational People in general. Either their framework is wrong when presented with a piece of evidence or that evidence is a liar, therefore the evidence is a liar.
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They want to live in gated communities but without the gates, if that makes sense. So anything that disrupts their fantasy is absolutely hated.
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But liberals believe in the permeability and mutability of human beings, that's a fundamental assumption of the liberal project. Make people conform to doing the good things. So therefore people who don't are either repudiating the system by choice (evil) or by nature (inferior).
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