It's Thursday, May 11, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

As we often discuss, liberalism is not evenly distributed across the country.

As you look at the United States, just to take one country, it is not evenly distributed.

For that matter, red and blue are not evenly distributed.

They are geographically concentrated, and they're sometimes geographically predictable.

We discussed the fact that whether you're looking at moral liberalism, you're looking

at political progressivism, or you're looking at a more secular culture, the reality is that

the closer you get to a campus, the closer you get to a coast, and the closer you get to

a city, the closer you get to the engines of all three, progressivism, liberalism, and secularism.

So one easy way to look at it is that if you have a city with a campus on the coast, well,

you've got a recipe for a pretty progressive mix these days, and there is no city that

represents that better than the city of San Francisco, California.

The reason we're talking about this today is that we are looking not only at the geopolitical

map and the real potential of failed states.

We're looking at the new potential of failed cities in the United States of America.

Now the fact that we're having this conversation would be shocking to many people, because real

estate prices in a city like San Francisco have over the course of the last half century

been spectacularly high.

And yet there's a big problem right now.

Indeed there's an entire collection of big problems, and they're all bills coming

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