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Claim: San Francisco Democrats Want to Move Party to the Center
Breitbart ^ | 04/21/2025 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 04/21/2025 10:31:47 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

San Francisco Democrats — who have produced some of the most left-wing politicians in America, and some of the most astonishing examples of poor “progressive” governance — want to move the party to the center.

That, at least, is the claim made by some local party activists in the pages of Politico on Monday:

Leaders of the local party argue the famously liberal city has, in recent years, exported one bad political idea after another, leading Democrats astray and ceding power in Washington to Donald Trump and the GOP. They cite “defund the police,” symbolic resolutions about foreign conflicts like the war in Gaza and removing the names of U.S. presidents from school buildings, among other causes they cast as damaging to the party’s brand.

It’s an astonishing pivot for the party in a longtime bastion of progressivism, after moderate Democratic activists made deep inroads in the city last year. Now they are attempting to lead a national conversation around what it takes for Democrats to win — by rejecting what they deride as performative politics and virtue signaling and embracing pragmatism and quality-of-life issues.

Their previously unreported plans, shared first in conversations with POLITICO, call for fully staffing police departments, erasing local regulations that drive up the cost of building new housing and focusing public schools on closing learning gaps for Black and Hispanic students in math and reading. They are also calling for imposing potential age limits on elected officials, a cause of some activists in both the center and left wings of the party.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: center; claim; democrats; fakeclaim; fakenews; move; party; sanfrancisco; sanfransicko; want
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No way in hell they become the party of Zell Miller.
1 posted on 04/21/2025 10:31:47 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Center of what? Hell?..................


2 posted on 04/21/2025 10:32:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

They use Karl Marx as their center.


3 posted on 04/21/2025 10:38:34 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Time to dump out the Treasury drawer and throw out all the junk that is wasting our money.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“Our guiding on the principles of Joseph Stalin has not worked out well. Let’s guide on the principles of Pol Pot!”


4 posted on 04/21/2025 10:40:22 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

THEY WILL SOON FIND OUT THAT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ‘CENTER’ LEFT................


5 posted on 04/21/2025 10:44:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
want to move the party to the center

want to PRETEND to move the party to the center, get back in office, and make sure no one who loves God and country can ever win an election again

There, fixed it.

6 posted on 04/21/2025 10:45:56 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Claim: San Francisco Democrats Want to Move Party to the Center

Reality: San Francisco Democrats Want to FAKE Moving Party to the Center While Consolidating Radical Prog Socialist Democrat Dictatorship in San Francisco.

7 posted on 04/21/2025 10:46:02 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ahh, centrist Bolsheviks.


8 posted on 04/21/2025 10:48:40 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
They centered the fringe with the sodomites. And then they centered the fringe of the fringe with the fake sex change nonsense.

When you do that there is really no recovery.

The center, which is where the people who make things actually work live, no longer want you because you have heaped distain on them.

9 posted on 04/21/2025 10:49:39 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No way they do this. Too afraid of triggering some extreme minority fringe.


10 posted on 04/21/2025 10:49:43 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: ChicagoConservative27
So, would be Center Democrats. Let's hear your views on the following topics.

Governor's ban on new vehicles in 2035.
The closing of the Valero refinery in Benicia in 2026.
Banning illegal aliens from voting in any election.
Deportation of all illegal aliens.
Elimination of voter fraud.
True efforts to conserve water instead of letting if flood back into the Pacific Ocean.
Enforcement of the death penalty.
Enforcement of teaching standards to provide students at all levels with a quality education.
Elimination of DIE in all government and educational institutions.
Support for ending affirmative action.
Return to the sentencing guidelines of Three Strikes.
Work for welfare.

11 posted on 04/21/2025 10:49:58 AM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Way too little, way too late…


12 posted on 04/21/2025 10:50:11 AM PDT by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

San Francisco Democrats ,ROFL


13 posted on 04/21/2025 10:51:02 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Go for it, SF demonicRATS. I’d love to see how all the left-wing lunatics you’ve indulged over the last 5 or 6 decades react.


14 posted on 04/21/2025 10:55:42 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrats are desperately trying everything to become relevant again.

It’s like...

let’s try this... well, that didn’t work...

let’s try that... oh, no,.. that didn’t work either...

maybe we can try something else.... well, nothing works...

so let’s go back to what used to work... does anybody remember what that was?

Bueller.... Bueller ......


15 posted on 04/21/2025 10:56:32 AM PDT by adorno ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Their previously unreported plans...call for fully staffing police departments, erasing local regulations that drive up the cost of building new housing and focusing public schools on closing learning gaps for Black and Hispanic students in math and reading.

That would be a turnaround indeed if any of it were sincere. But more cops doesn't mean more law enforcement if nobody is ever charged or jailed. And closing "learning gaps" for minorities has to swim against a torrent of accusations of racism when the standards are raised and results aren't forthcoming, not to mention fierce resistance from the heavily radicalized teachers' unions whose members appear to be dedicated to anything but teaching.

The problem is that deliberate efforts to effect social change by polarizing the public have succeeded in wiping out the center, period. There's no "center" to move to when any deviation from radical progressivism is met with media shrieking, mobs, and violence.

16 posted on 04/21/2025 11:02:33 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“San Francisco Democrats — who have produced some of the most left-wing politicians in America, and some of the most astonishing examples of poor “progressive” governance — want to move the party to the center.”

There’s too much tie dye in their wardrobes for that to actually happen...


17 posted on 04/21/2025 11:03:00 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In other news, Satan announced that he is no longer the devil.


18 posted on 04/21/2025 11:07:13 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23 "And THIS is His commandment . . . . ")
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To: Red Badger; Liz; fwdude; Morgana; ViLaLuz

(Center of what? Hell?.)

Exactly. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Hunky “jesus” and Foxy Mary, San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair.....

These things represent the face of San FranSicko Sodom and Gomorrah II


19 posted on 04/21/2025 11:14:12 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III
"(Democrats) want to PRETEND to move the party to the center"

This!

20 posted on 04/21/2025 11:14:58 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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