Posted on 08/25/2019 3:44:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
Throughout most of its history, San Francisco has been known as the beautiful “city by the bay.” It has wonderful scenery, the Golden Gate bridge, the cable cars, Pier 39 among other wonderful cultural attractions. Sadly, it is also led by unhinged progressives who are in the process of destroying this unique city.
While there is incredible wealth in San Francisco, along with plenty of high-tech corporate headquarters, there is also a growing poverty crisis. Currently, according to the city’s own definition, there are approximately 10,000 homeless people living in San Francisco. This represents a shocking 30% increase in just the last two years.
Not only are poor people living in tents, cars, on the sidewalks and under bridges, but they are also defecating and urinating on the streets. In a recent survey
of downtown San Francisco, 300 piles of human feces were discovered by investigators. This has forced the city to hire a squad of employees dedicated to cleaning up the increasing mess of bodily waste on the streets.
Of course, with thousands of people using the streets as a bathroom, the rodent and health problems have exploded. San Francisco has become not only an eyesore, but a biological hazard, which could lead to the spread of deadly diseases such as rotavirus, hepatitis and HIV among many others.
The calamity has been aggravated by a breakdown in the criminal justice system as liberal judges refuse to put offenders in jail. Recently, a homeless man, Austin Vincent, with a record of assault and attempted robbery was released by Superior Court Judge Christine Van Aken. After an uproar from the public and other city leaders, the judge did not reverse her decision and send the disturbed man to prison, but she allowed him to remain free with an ankle monitor.
San Francisco is the home of tolerance for criminals, which has a direct impact on the homeless catastrophe. It was also exacerbated by the passage of Proposition 47 by California voters in 2014. The measure downgraded the punishment for certain “non-violent” crimes such as forgery, shoplifting and using illegal drugs. With fewer drug addicted people in prison or in treatment, more have found a home on the streets of San Francisco.
It seems clear that a tolerant attitude towards drugs in San Francisco has accelerated the homeless problem. Among the homeless are drug addicted zombies who are given
free needles in the city so they can shoot up and continue their unhealthy lifestyle.
An amazing total of 4.45 million free needles are given away by the city every year. It should surprise no one that this program increases not only drug addiction, but also trash in San Francisco as the needles end up as litter on the streets.
Along with the drug addicted, the homeless population also includes mentally ill individuals who are not being served in the area hospitals. In addition, some city officials are blaming the skyrocketing housing prices for forcing residents onto the streets. For example, a yearly income of over $117,000 for a family of four is not enough to survive in San Francisco. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would qualify for low income status in the city.
Thus, San Francisco is a tale of two cities, one for the uber rich and the other for the struggling middle class and the poor who cannot survive financially. Liberal leaders have not been able to grow the middle class, deal with the homeless problem, or keep the city safe.
Rather than worry about the growing number of victims, city leaders seem to be more concerned about how criminals are treated. For example, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors recently passed a resolution that targets such words as “felon,” “inmate,” “convict,” or “prisoner.” According to the geniuses on the board, such words are “dehumanizing” and “make the institutionalization of racism and supremacy appear normal.”
Thus, in the Orwellian city of San Francisco, it preferred that phrases such as “currently incarcerated person,” or “young person impacted by the justice system” be used to replace the supposedly racist language.
Clearly, San Francisco is not dealing with the liberal policies at the root of such problems as homelessness or crime. Instead, city leaders are attacking the language so they will not be accused of racism and criminals can feel better about themselves.
This is a city with “woke” leaders desperately trying to implement the latest politically correct polices, while problems are exploding on their watch. It is a sad state of affairs, in fact, it might be called criminal, but, unfortunately, that word is no longer allowed in San Francisco.
What proportion of the population will have to die before the Leftist leaders wake up?
The only possible time these whatever they are can wake up is just before their formers vassals ask them if they would like a blindfold ... but even that’s doubtful.
<< Liberal leaders have not been able to grow the middle class >>
They actively try to destroy it, in fact. Thankfully many blue collar longtime Dem voters are finally waking up to that fact.
Talk about a crappy job.
That right there is the key to the whole problem...
It's the lawyers... They're are making a bundle off the state defending the pushers and their victims.. They couldn't care less about the people in the streets..
While the people suffer the lawyers and politicians, nearly all politician are lawyers, laugh all the way to the bank.. :(
there is a point that local people will need to get rid of the authorities that are putting their lives at risk, and act on the problems.
sad.
Just read this at TH
One of the commenters there actually blames this on conservatives in SF
As if those dozen or so non-liberals in the city have any sway over policies
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Libs need an “Emmanuel Goldstein” on which to dump all their failure and hate.
No amount. As long as it doesn’t effect the rich and elite no one will care. This story is as old as civilization itself. The super rich and powerful live apart and rule over the rest of society. Kings and serfs. This is the natural order of things, and where we and the rest of the world are headed. Those with power and money care little for the common people. In San Francisco you can add to that that most of the rich elites are also techy nerds who are by nature asocial misfits who live in their own little global fantasy world.
The only difference between today and say the dark ages is that today the rich and powerful feign concern for certain groups of the ‘poor and disadvantaged’ with virtue signaling. Whereas in the past they showed their disdain openly. We are not too far away from the Hunger Games.
Someone who gets it. I was talking to my BIL last night and he said he didn’t consider himself an racist, and didn’t want to see the country he grew up destroyed. I told him it wasn’t his decision anymore. He was a racist by default because he is a white male, and the country he loved is long gone and not coming back because his kids had been taught to hate that country, and were voting for people whose plan was to fundamentally change it. He didn’t like my answer, but the other four older white adult present all agreed with me.
SanFrancisco was America........ no more
The destroying earth quake cannot come too soon
I went to SF in 1985 on business. Stayed a week. Hotel in Union Square. Homos everywhere. I was cautious not to touch anything questionable. I was pretty sure then as now that biting flies (horse flies, black flies) could spread aids. Bald sickly gays were everywhere. 1985.
Had some crap fish dinners compared with the East coast and the Great Lakes, got insulted repeatedly in Chinatown for not knowing how to order a donut. Had an ugly lawyer hit on me because she couldn’t find a straight lawyer to date in SF. Paid my local counsel $350/hr for his lazy incompetence when a good lawyer in a NYC firm was about the same price. Found out that the courts out there allow people to sell their dates on the trial calendar to move their cases forward in the face of endless delay. Utterly corrupt.
Got the hell out of there. Never go back.
Do any of the “leaders” or residents of San Francisco see/feel the industrial strength hypocrisy?
SF elitists believe that people with certain skin tones are all criminals & prisoners therefore, those words are eliminated to change the way they themselves think about different races.
“Hello, I’m here from the government and I’m here to protect you, from me”.
That’s about the gist of it. I’m holding out hope that CWII may change our course.
“What proportion of the population will have to die before the Leftist leaders wake up?”
Wake up? No, they’ll celebrate.
Leftists like the deaths of serfs. History shows this. Be it abortion, euthanasia, drug overdose or onward to death squads/camps or plague, they’re okey doke with that.
Leftists/progressives are self-destructive, death infatuated, mentally imbalanced. Or just plain evil.
They are not going to care until the plague invades the Google campus. They will start caring when Silicon Valley employees start dropping. THEN they may care enough to do something. Until that happens they will continue to wade through the s#@t unmoved.
Progressive “leadership” is doing this on purpose. Homelessness in SF has risen 30% in the last 2 years.. It’s because of Leftist policies, but that won’t stop them from trying to blame President Trump. Look at how they are rooting for a recession. The Leftist Elites care Nothing about the common man.. Waiting for the so-called “woke” to wake up.
death of serfs?
more for me!
leftist thought
“That right there is the key to the whole problem...It’s the lawyers...”
Yes. Always look at who makes money off of situations.
Judges and about half of politicians were...lawyers.
Their “well-intentions” for the greater good outweigh human life!
You have just described what might be called the democrat party, liberalism, communism, socialism, and a thousand other isms, based on the lies of satan vs the absolute truths of the living God.
God help us!!!
Great post for your one year anniversary here.
It’s poopular with the homeless.
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