Fully half of the people of this nation either want the tyranny of the Left Wing political class, or simply don’t believe in it (or are completely checked out of civic life).
The people of San Francisco and Los Angeles WANT shit on the streets, needles everywhere they turn and typhoid and bubonic plague in their cities. What they don’t want is to have to do anything to lift themselves out of their squalor - they don’t want the idea of a person being responsible for their own lives and own situation. They’ve turned their lives over to the tyranny of the wealthy political class willingly.
To many people who don’t live in those places...and never go there themselves, these places are no more real that garbage dump cities around Manila. They’re no more real than that to them...and they vote not believing in that but definitely believing that their public sector pay will go up by backing the political class.
Democracy is a form a tyranny. It can be manipulated - has been manipulated here - to create the same conditions that existed in old feudal and monarchical states. That is why it is hard to see how we will ever vote our way out of our own moral and social deterioration into chaos and poverty. Over the long haul that is probably not possible. Eventually, if we really want out it will have to be by force.