STATION EDITORIAL

Posted April 3, 2024

This is a station editorial, I’m Randal J. Miller, station president.

You may remember in a late December editorial, I shared that a
colleague of mine forwarded an article by marketing guru Roy Williams who read the book Don Quixote, written in 1605.  Williams extracts from the book, that civilization has lived in 40 year pendulums from good to evil, and back to good.  Williams' opinion is that we've had 40 years of evil, and that 2024 will be the year that pendulum swings back to starting towards good again.

Now comes a story reported by multiple news outlets from the state of Oregon, doing a U-turn on a short-lived liberal policy that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of certain drugs.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, a Democrat, on April First signed into law a bill that reverses Measure 110, a 2020 law that voters OK’d to decriminalize most illegal possession of controlled substance offenses and redirect much of the state's marijuana tax revenue to fund grants for addiction services.

Around 58% of Oregon residents approved the initial measure.   Since that time, addiction and overdose deaths have skyrocketed in Oregon and nationwide as fentanyl swept across the country. In a change of heart in August, 56% of Oregonians disapproved of the pioneering drug law and both Republicans and Democrats introduced legislation to roll back the controversial measure which the Governor signed into law.

Going back to the Don Quixote book written in 1605 that marketing guru Roy Williams quoted late last year saying civilization has lived in 40 year pendulums from good to evil, and back to good, it’s Williams' opinion we've had 40 years of evil, and that 2024 will be the year that pendulum swings back to starting towards good again.

Let’s hope for the country’s sake, and for the sake of the human race, that we’re seeing that happen.   Just maybe.

That’s our opinion, we welcome yours.   Our e-mail address is editorial@randyradio.com.