On Sunday, June 6, 2021 at 3:45:12 AM UTC-7, William Crowell wrote:
It's OK, Jay! You don't really need to be a guilty white liberal just because you do insurance defense work. I feel so sorry for you defense attorneys, and how ashamed you are about the work you do, so you try to atone for it and virtue signal by being mindless liberals. The frustrating part is that you don't have enough self-knowledge to realize what you are doing, so it's impossible to reason with you. I sure am glad that I did plaintiffs' work, so I didn't need to feel guilty, and was therefore intellectually and emotionally free to become a conservative. But if you feel so guilty about the nature of the work you do, why don't you change practice areas?

WTF? That doesn't even make sense. The plaintiff's bar is notoriously liberal, particularly when it comes to electing judges. There are outliers, however, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Lin_Wood -- but most of those folks are just narcissists looking for attention -- or terrified that their former clients will damage their $10M Georgian mansions. https://i.insider.com/5ef9ab9a4dca686d1f04e9a3

In contrast, those who defend businesses swing both ways but trend conservative -- although not Trump cultist. One of the last viable Republican candidates for Oregon governor was a former partner in my firm, Ron Saxton. I voted for Ron. Here's a fun story about all the dueling Republicans from my firm: https://www.wweek.com/portland/artic...old-potty.html All these guys practiced together and ended up ****ing all over each other to get the Republican nomination -- it was sad.

Its also interesting that at the same time these guys were practicing together, Neil Goldschmidt, the former Democratic Governor, sublet space at our firm -- on my floor. Years earlier, Neil hired my patriarch, Dennis Lindsay, and took him to Washington when he was Secretary of Transportation during the Carter administration. Another partner, Alan Hart, was one of BPA's first chief counsel, buddy of Bill Douglas (who would visit before my time), and started the ACLU in Oregon -- and notably stood up for Japanese internees. https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/a.../#.YLzzF_lKgRk Alan was a great man, and my partner Carl Neil was another great civil libertarian who went to Mississippi during the civil rights movement. https://www.bizjournals.com/portland...3/daily24.html The firm was filled with heavy-hitting Democrats and Republicans, all of whom worked together and drank together -- perhaps too much.

This was my political education -- one big family of lefties and righties -- like a loud Thanksgiving dinner and not the current cult-driven insurrection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEu_...n%262Neph ews As illustrated by your response, one cannot point out an obvious fact or flaw about Trump without prompting a jihad. You can rail on Biden as much as you like, and if it is factual and legitimate, I'm not going to come at you with a short-sword screaming Allahu Akbar.

It feels like the McCarthy era or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Maybe when the plague is over, sanity will return.

-- Jay Beattie.