Yesterday I wrote in regards to the Politico article on the measures
One of the best parts, though, is that implementing law and order, reducing crime are considered a rightward and conservative shift. So, Democrat policy stands for crime and disorder?
Yes, yes they do
An article in the San Francisco Chronicle declared the city “can no longer be called a progressive city” after the success of two law-and-order ballot measures on Tuesday.
Chronicle reporters Aldo Toledo and Joe Garofoli wrote that with the city voting “yes” on ballot measures that would require drug screenings for potential welfare recipients and increase police powers in the city, progressive policies appear to no longer be popular with residents.
The first of the two ballot measures, Proposition F, requires drug screening for people receiving public benefits and would force drug addicts to go into treatment if they want to continue receiving those benefits. The second, Proposition E, would give law enforcement better surveillance tools and rein in oversight over the force, allowing looser restrictions on car chases, for example.
The reporters added that, in addition to approving these measures, “voters also backed a slate of moderates to run the local Democratic County Central Committee, whose endorsements could reshape who is elected in San Francisco for years.”
So, yes, crime and disorder is what Progressives stand for, and residents of San Francisco have hit their breaking point with these wackos. I’m surprised it too them this long
The Chronicle noted how some progressives feel they aren’t too devastated by Tuesday’s results, noting that November’s election – where Breed faces challengers to her re-election – will be “a better barometer of San Francisco’s progressivism.”
It detailed how progressives need to “rally behind better solutions when it comes to the problems that voters care about most, like public safety, housing, homelessness and the drug crisis,” and provided examples of prominent progressives strategizing on how to get their messaging straight. The authors also observed, “one message progressives agree on is that they’re in danger.”
Messaging is cute, but, the residents, those who haven’t moved out of San Francisco, have seen the results of the actions for decades as crime skyrocketed, as car breakins and thefts were the norm, as businesses saw constant theft, as businesses closed down, particularly in the downtown area, as people refused to go to certain shopping areas, as homeless raged across the city, as poop, urine, and drug needles were all over. The big wigs who supported all the anti-law and pro-disorder policies tend to live in areas which do not see this and are wealthy enough that the police who haven’t left patrol their neighborhoods in force, and I bet that anyone who commits a crime against the wealthy are prosecuted.
Next up, I can see SF changing policies and allowing law enforcement to work with immigration officials like ICE.
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