I live in LA, not SF, but the vibe is similar and we both obviously live under the reign of Social Justice, which makes its believers feel pure & holy even as their policies only make the world around them crumble.
I was driving home a few days ago on Pico Blvd and there is a bum camp there under the 405 overpass. A drugged-out zombie wandered out into traffic and we all had to slam on our brakes and a girl on a bicycle next to me came close to being brained on the bumper of the car in the next lane.
After I stopped cursing, I had 2 thoughts:
1) We have prioritized the lives and needs of a small sliver of society, our most dysfunctional sliver, who have been sculpted into Victim Gods, who can never be questioned or imposed upon. Thus, entire areas must become dangerous and off-limits because doing otherwise would be taboo or "cruel" or in violation of their "rights". (Because their "rights" reign.)
If there had been a major crash and injuries, we would have all ended up in the hospital and the junkie who wandered into the street would have been back in his tent getting high oblivious to the damage and suffering he caused.
2) Whoever made this state/country/city and its laws and courts and infrastructure bestowed upon us the great gift of Civilization and we are in the process of destroying that gift. Cali is in the process of de-civilizing all in the name of worshiping the Victim God.
It is really sad and shameful and someday people will look back at 21st century and see all the gifts we were given and wonder how we squandered them and turned a paradise into a garbage dump.
Great article. The problem in San Francisco is it has a very low and pathetic voter turn out and so many voters are very ill informed. I guarantee they will have no clue that those pics are stock photos. I'll post this on Nextdoor and hopefully it will gain some traction.
Your piece in last week's NYPost leads me to suggest that SF adopt the Abbott Solution: Open pop-up drug centers outside the homes of your pro-crime supervisors. Set up some free tent shelters there. Entice drug dealers by offering free seating and tents. Urge druggies to take advantage of their more sanitary sidewalks for uses as bathrooms.--bill marsano
A superb deconstruction of the truly twisted world of San Francisco's one-party rule.
The clear misrepresentations of "progressive" supporters of both Kamala Harris, when she ran for DA, and the current challenger, who is clearly using a made-up name, would mean defeat or recall in most political environments, but not where Jim Jones was appointed to City's Housing Commission!
I never lived in SF, but my uncle did, and was an influential architect and participant in City politics in the 70s and 80s. I adored SF, its true diversity, the authenticity of the many neighborhoods, and its real accessibility, by all people.
HONEY believes we need a Crisis Workers Act to hire more police and social workers on our streets. As Chief of Staff to Matt Haney, she helped fund more police in the Tenderloin Emergency Plan, advocated for more community ambassadors in the Mid Market Safety Plan, and supported more social workers by co-authoring Mental Health SF.
HOUSING
HONEY knows first hand we need to build and streamline housing at all levels. She was head of land use in the District 6 office, building 9000 units of housing in 4 years – more than all other districts combined.
DOWNTOWN
HONEY will invest in businesses to recover our downtown, support new tech industries, and cut red tape for small businesses. As a co-owner of the first LGBTQ co-op in the US, Honey would be the only small business owner on the Board of Supervisors.
These seem like policy positions to me. They are not as detailed and wonky as Matt's granted, but she doesn't have to campaign the way you would prefer. She just has to appeal to the voters.
There is at least as much here as on the Dorsey website:
The War on Drugs was a massive failure. Arresting drug dealers does not reduce drug overdoses, drug costs or drug availability. All it does is waste taxpayer money and put a permanent mark on young people's record which makes them unemployable.
It's really a choice between the "Tough on Crime" pro-cop and pro-recall Matt, who has changed his stance on housing and drug policy many times and Honey, the social worker who wants to use proven techniques to reduce drug use and crime.
Your claim that Honey Mahogany has no policy positions is facile and untrue. She has stated that our number one priority should be building more housing, that San Francisco needs to hire more social workers and drug counselors so that treatment is available on demand and that we need to stop open air drug dealing. I am pretty sure you already know that.
Three out of the four politicians in the photo are black, and the one white person might be replaced by another black candidate. This in a city where there are far more Asians than blacks. How is this the representation Mahogany and, more broadly, people of the left claim to represent?
I live in LA, not SF, but the vibe is similar and we both obviously live under the reign of Social Justice, which makes its believers feel pure & holy even as their policies only make the world around them crumble.
I was driving home a few days ago on Pico Blvd and there is a bum camp there under the 405 overpass. A drugged-out zombie wandered out into traffic and we all had to slam on our brakes and a girl on a bicycle next to me came close to being brained on the bumper of the car in the next lane.
After I stopped cursing, I had 2 thoughts:
1) We have prioritized the lives and needs of a small sliver of society, our most dysfunctional sliver, who have been sculpted into Victim Gods, who can never be questioned or imposed upon. Thus, entire areas must become dangerous and off-limits because doing otherwise would be taboo or "cruel" or in violation of their "rights". (Because their "rights" reign.)
If there had been a major crash and injuries, we would have all ended up in the hospital and the junkie who wandered into the street would have been back in his tent getting high oblivious to the damage and suffering he caused.
2) Whoever made this state/country/city and its laws and courts and infrastructure bestowed upon us the great gift of Civilization and we are in the process of destroying that gift. Cali is in the process of de-civilizing all in the name of worshiping the Victim God.
It is really sad and shameful and someday people will look back at 21st century and see all the gifts we were given and wonder how we squandered them and turned a paradise into a garbage dump.
Great article. The problem in San Francisco is it has a very low and pathetic voter turn out and so many voters are very ill informed. I guarantee they will have no clue that those pics are stock photos. I'll post this on Nextdoor and hopefully it will gain some traction.
I enjoy almost all of your work. But I can see only two reasons for you calling Honey Mahogany "she" and neither of them are good.
Your piece in last week's NYPost leads me to suggest that SF adopt the Abbott Solution: Open pop-up drug centers outside the homes of your pro-crime supervisors. Set up some free tent shelters there. Entice drug dealers by offering free seating and tents. Urge druggies to take advantage of their more sanitary sidewalks for uses as bathrooms.--bill marsano
A superb deconstruction of the truly twisted world of San Francisco's one-party rule.
The clear misrepresentations of "progressive" supporters of both Kamala Harris, when she ran for DA, and the current challenger, who is clearly using a made-up name, would mean defeat or recall in most political environments, but not where Jim Jones was appointed to City's Housing Commission!
I never lived in SF, but my uncle did, and was an influential architect and participant in City politics in the 70s and 80s. I adored SF, its true diversity, the authenticity of the many neighborhoods, and its real accessibility, by all people.
That city seems to be lost, perhaps forever.
"But the people in the images are all fake."
Very, very telling.
Related question: Why do powerful business interests want SF to be a hell-hole?
That doesn't make any of use safer even more so with a thinly spread police force.
From Honey Mahogany's Website:
SAFETY
HONEY believes we need a Crisis Workers Act to hire more police and social workers on our streets. As Chief of Staff to Matt Haney, she helped fund more police in the Tenderloin Emergency Plan, advocated for more community ambassadors in the Mid Market Safety Plan, and supported more social workers by co-authoring Mental Health SF.
HOUSING
HONEY knows first hand we need to build and streamline housing at all levels. She was head of land use in the District 6 office, building 9000 units of housing in 4 years – more than all other districts combined.
DOWNTOWN
HONEY will invest in businesses to recover our downtown, support new tech industries, and cut red tape for small businesses. As a co-owner of the first LGBTQ co-op in the US, Honey would be the only small business owner on the Board of Supervisors.
These seem like policy positions to me. They are not as detailed and wonky as Matt's granted, but she doesn't have to campaign the way you would prefer. She just has to appeal to the voters.
There is at least as much here as on the Dorsey website:
https://www.mattdorsey.org/about
The War on Drugs was a massive failure. Arresting drug dealers does not reduce drug overdoses, drug costs or drug availability. All it does is waste taxpayer money and put a permanent mark on young people's record which makes them unemployable.
It's really a choice between the "Tough on Crime" pro-cop and pro-recall Matt, who has changed his stance on housing and drug policy many times and Honey, the social worker who wants to use proven techniques to reduce drug use and crime.
Your claim that Honey Mahogany has no policy positions is facile and untrue. She has stated that our number one priority should be building more housing, that San Francisco needs to hire more social workers and drug counselors so that treatment is available on demand and that we need to stop open air drug dealing. I am pretty sure you already know that.
Three out of the four politicians in the photo are black, and the one white person might be replaced by another black candidate. This in a city where there are far more Asians than blacks. How is this the representation Mahogany and, more broadly, people of the left claim to represent?