Portland is depressing

Despite all the excitement of change in the land, directed by Obama, Portland suddenly has become such a divided city in the grandest "old politics" style that it is depressing to live here. All I can do is try and block it out. This town has too many ideologues and smug hypocrites. If it were a Republican mayor who had seduced a teenage girl, it would be the same thing with the sides reversed, the progressives screaming for resignation, the conservatives saying don't rush to judgment. The country may be changing but here in Puddle City it feels like nothing has changed at all.