Posted on 07/30/2023 11:45:18 AM PDT by DallasBiff
As some leftists continue to defend their city’s reputation, locals in San Francisco spoke up about the “hellhole” it has become.
“It honestly feels like I’m in a place that’s been in a zombie apocalypse.”
Lax policing has turned once-thriving districts of progressive cities into meccas of homelessness and drug addiction. The crisis has even led San Francisco Mayor London Breed and the board of supervisors to roll out a pilot program to remove individuals who pose a danger to themselves or others.
Speaking with Fox News Digital, Seema Gokhale who lives near the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood expressed, “It really feels post-apocalyptic. Something needs to be done. We have to make this a livable place. I describe it as a hellhole right now. If I wasn’t a homeowner and hadn’t grown up in the area and there wasn’t a strong job market in the area, I would leave.
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There is a reason, the dem party wants this..It is no mistake...Annnd it is not because of tolerance..... Same for Chicago with the black on black crime every week and the black dems in charge DO NOTHING.......
SF, Chicago, NYC. Democrats vision for America.
One - liberal politics
Two - (and the most curious to me) - a minority of registered voters religiously vote and keep electing the same idiots and ideology over and over and over. A rational person would say “this ain't working”. But no. They do it again and again.....
“If I wasn’t a homeowner and hadn’t grown up in the area and there wasn’t a strong job market in the area, I would leave.”
It will probably take a couple of muggings to persuade them.
She forgot to add "but I will never ever ever ever vote for anyone but Democrats."
The Mayors of 5 of the 10 most populous cities in the US are all black, 9 of 10 are Democrats, 1 claiming to be “Independent”.
The first “Republican” is at #15 (Fort Worth, TX), and the second is at #23 (Oklahoma city, OK).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_the_50_largest_cities_in_the_United_States
I have an "extended family" member who thinks like this. On any given complaint about the culture or economy and more, he regularly says, "If Trump were in charge, it would be worse." After almost three years of Democrats in charge, he cannot think straight.
“Lax policing”
I wonder why policing went limp. Weren’t they going to hire lots of social workers to make up the shortfall in cops?
How’s that police recruitment going in San Francisco? I’m sure young men all over the country are eager to join a force that doesn’t have your back, lets your collars out by sundown, and paints a target on your back.
“A rational person would say ‘this ain’t working.’”
Liberals have NEVER operated on the principal of Cause and Effect. Their universal theory is “Well, that policy didn’t work, but only because there wasn’t enough money. Let’s double down.”
“She forgot to add “but I will never ever ever ever vote for anyone but Democrats.”
An inborn trait of “liberals” is that they are incapable of connecting dots. Cause and effect is a foreign concept to them.
Things just happen.
Black + Democrat is about the STUPIDEST combination you can get. Liberal, Marxist, or Communist are just slightly different flavors of the same level of STUPID.
Simple sanitation was the cure to many plagues during the dark ages. And WHAT do today’s “educated” Democrats do? They pass laws ALLOWING CRAPPING IN THE STREET. YES Democrats, these cities are literal shitholes by YOUR OWN MAKING!
How perceptive of these longtime residents. Are they perceptive enough to figure out how it came to pass?
I recall Michael Savage taking a lot of hits at FR when he called out what was happening to San Fran some 20 years ago.
The Tenderloin area of SF was always questionable. Didn’t have to slide downhill very far to become the wreck it is today.
Savage was right. The trend started down with Art Agnos permitting an encampment at Civic Center in 1989.
There have been times of pushback, but the trend was negative, slowly at first, and then a complete crash in 2020.
You get what you vote for.
Democrat machine towns
Yes Agnos was the start
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