I will say we were elected as progressives in a two to 13 minority on the council.

We were nevertheless endowed with a almost superhuman power over the existing situation

on the ground. And it was part of a larger conception that really continues to exist of the

idea that in particular in big cities, when something doesn't happen,

like someone doesn't get arrested or someone gets away with retail theft or when there is a tent

on the street and that person isn't being housed. Previously, that was generally perceived

as a manifestation of just bureaucratic incompetence and a slow,

inefficient system. And once progressives got into power, it became the product of deliberate

ideology in people's minds. Right. That there is an opportunity to go in there and do something

about that situation, but someone in

front of a big board with a bunch of flashing lights is just pushing the red button over and

again and saying, don't do that. Don't intervene on that situation. We're compassionate. You know,

these people have human rights and we just want to leave them alone in their suffering. Yeah,

the progressives high on their empathy.

Yeah.

The free press writes about it every day.

Nelly Bowles did a huge piece about how San Francisco became a failed city that was

basically built on this exact premise.

In Nellie Bowles' mind, there is a blue-haired trans woman pressing the red button over and

over again to say,

no, don't arrest that person. No, don't clear that tent. And like I've said, you might have

like certain pockets of certain cities where some elected is concerned about the optics of

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