It's a shame. The city still has its own peculiar beauty.
The liberals who want to bring the country down to the level of, say, Venezuela would never allow that.
I must admit I'm seeing some light at the end of the tunnel, however. The incredibly annoying '60s and '70s "activists" all grown up (see: Kerry, John, for example) who made the 2000's such a landmark of BS are fading away and retiring, while more pragmatic Reagan-era kids are moving into positions of power. That would truly be "change we can believe in."