Posted on 10/08/2018 5:32:23 AM PDT by upchuck
Pelousy
I thought liberalism had poverty licked? You meant it hasn’t?
It can’t be blamed on Republicans. They don’t run California.
Tourist-wise, I think it’ll really start to show over the next two years as upscale hotels can’t fill rooms, and the city tourist tax revenue drops like a rock.
“For many who live here it’s difficult to reconcile San Francisco’s liberal politics with the misery that surrounds them.”
I just got back from a week in SF.
It’s not difficult at all to reconcile those things. The first is the cause of the second.
I saw nothing like this when I visited San Francisco in the 1990s. Things have gone downhill there since then.
Then it has to be because carbon taxes are too low.
CA is a one party.state. There is no incentive to change things or to improve the quality of life.
As long as Californians continue to vote Democrat, things will remain the same.
“difficult to reconcile San Francisco’s liberal politics with the misery”
No it’s not. Socialism exacerbates differences between the rich and poor.
It was free market capitalism that created the ability to move from poor to rich. Prior to that, the only way to up your class was through physical force.
Never been there and don’t want to.
I’ll stick with reruns of The Streets Of San Francisco, Ironside, and McMillan & Wife reruns for any SF fix.
I think all that is left is to reditribute the dem leaders income to achieve Utopia.
very sad indeed... I do think its interesting the city is beginning the process of institutionalization, renaming it conservatorship. De-institutionalization happened across America in the 70’s, dumping these people into community services that have never had the resources to follow up.
Last night, we watched the last episode of Goliath on Prime TV
The newly elected mayor of Los Angeles was the sister of the chief of a Mexican cartel.
Re-open the asylums; 90% of them are mentally-ill and need institutionalization. After that, the streets will return to normal.
SH_TH_L_
“I’d like to buy a vowel?”
I spent a day in the Marina district last month and saw none of this. I guess it depends on where you’re looking.
I agree. Ceasing to lock up the nutballs is the primary reason for this. It had a seriously bad effect on SF and the country at large.
Maybe, someday, the Liberals will see the error(s) of their ways. Nah :)
Seems pretty straightforward to me. If you don’t want to live in a sh*thole, stop turning the place you live into a sh*thole. Seriously, did conservatives come in and dump their trash and feces on the streets? No. The wonderful residents of SF are the ones trashing SF and then complaining about “...the dichotomy of...” etc. etc. Get it through your thick, indoctrinated skulls libtards: no-one is responsible for your misery except you!
They call that neighborhood the Tenderloin and it has always been a dangerous neighborhood. I lived there 50 years ago and even then it was for derelicts.
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