Most Democrats Want Normal. Nationally It's Going Bad. In San Francisco, There's Hope.
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I am so tired of reading & hearing that Mamdani is the future of the Democratic Party. The SF story should be blasted across the podcasts, Substack, and yes, MSM.
Progressives have run California politics like PacMan without any ghosts on the board. People with jobs/careers/businesses/kids generally only pay attention to national elections, and meanwhile at the state and local level truly batshit crazy ideas have taken hold around housing, education, policing, and other important issues. I'm on council in East Palo Alto and the moderate vision is crazy popular after decades of terrible governance. There are so many obvious and easy fixes to the city that the progressives simply couldn't be bothered to do: fix parks, improve street lighting, invest in safe streets with roundabouts and speed humps, do code enforcement, etc. "Getting good stuff done" should be the priority, and sadly, it has not been.
I'll add that many progressive ideas around governance are a lot like the practice of using bleeding and leeches to heal patients. No matter how much they believe it, these practices harm and do not help the patient. Pick your policy around policing, housing, governance and the metaphor applies.