Most people in SF don’t vote.
They are a majority of Asians who are either FOB’s (fresh off the boat) or are not citizens, as a very high proportion stay in permanent resident status. And even Asian citizens don’t vote much, being foreign born they believe in conforming to the local rulers.
And those people that do vote Democrat - a “normal” person certainly can vote in ways that their personal life wouldn’t predict. This city is full of people with unimpeachable personal lives that vote Democrat out of habit and out of conformity with the prevailing culture. Forgive them, for they really don’t know what they do.
And I live here, I know these people personally. My kids are friends with their kids.
It is plain fanaticism, by the way, to condemn people who don’t vote our way.
He's right.
My wife is Korean. I know the Korean community well and I've watched its rise to prominence in the business world on the West Coast, while virtually ignoring politics. Very similar things could be said about the much larger Chinese community, to a lesser extent the Japanese community, and in some ways the Vietnamese and other southeast Asian communities.
If we could get the immigrant Asian and Hispanic communities to start voting and in the case of Christians, to start voting in accord with what is being taught from their pulpits, even some of our worst cesspools of city life could get fixed. There is no good reason that anti-Communist Vietnamese refugees in California didn't follow the model of the Cubans in Florida, and the same could be said about Chinese businessmen who fled Hong Kong out of fear of what could happen if China changed its policies.
For now, San Francisco is only an extreme example of what happens when decent people stand by and do nothing while the aggressive left-wingers push their agenda. Let that be a warning for people who think being part of the silent majority will work — defend what you value or you will lose it.
Garbage. The people who run your city are not garden-variety Democrats; they are criminally insane, and they obviously reflect the values of those who support them. BTW, watch your kids CAREFULLY when they interact with all those nice neighbors.