Infrastructure has by now deteriorated to the point of non-existence, simple services as well. Gasoline is not readily available – see the Nigerians drilling holes into gasoline pipelines to steal the fuel, then being immolated in the ensuing fires. Islamist militants have free rein to murder non-believers in the religion of peace. Railroads are a shell of their once-comfortable transportation past. Roads remain impassable during the wet season since paved roadways have disappeared due to lack of proper maintenance. It’s difficult to introduce Western Civ. without a decent background of religion or enlightened thoughts by those colonialized.

And when was the last time that South Africa had 24-hour electricity or water?

“The real solution is for this university to find itself lacking in students. Parents and high school students must consider other options after high school. If Portland State finds that it can’t attract students because of its bankrupt education culture, it just might consider rethinking that culture.”

Unhappily, most of the people / voters who live on the “left coast” of Oregon — as opposed to those in the eastern part of the state who are seeking to affiliate with Idaho — are *perfectly happy* with the present arrangements at Portland State, and they wouldn’t have it any other way.

We are now looking at a situation in which these left coast Oregon “progressives” have effectively seceded from the rest of the United States, at least in a cultural sense, and it is simply wishful thinking to believe that they will somehow see the error of their ways and give up their desire to live in an authoritarian, one party state like Cuba. They are HAPPY with their present arrangements, and this is reflected in the culture at their universities. Likewise their toleration of “peaceful protest” (aka, riots) in their major cities. Please pass the Kool-Aid.

See https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/protests/portland-ice-facility-clash-demonstrators/283-751a1fc4-6cd9-4088-b0fa-6fd0e3d9dd98

The real question, or so it seem to me, is how do we maintain a “United States” when these people now want nothing to do with it, and they would forcibly impose their toxic ideology on the rest of us if they could.

PS — With respect to Jeff’s comment on the books from mid Twentieth Century, they represent our culture at its zenith, as reflected in Max Lerner’s classic America as a Civilization. Since then, it has been mostly down hill.

The books of the mid Twentieth Century I value more than those before or after.

And you will not deviate!

So shameful and dishonest.