With all due respect, it seems you're so deep into the culture war that you can't see the forest for the trees. The left vs right distinction hasn't existed in

With all due respect, it seems you're so deep into the culture war that you can't see the forest for the trees. The left vs right distinction hasn't existed in San Francisco for decades at this point - it barely exists in California metros at all anymore beyond the old party fundraising machinery. The Republican party is already practically irrelevant state wide. The same can be said of Democrats in rural California or even many states. In those scenarios, the second you make it about political ideology, you shut yourself out of the process, either by refusing to engage with it because they're the "others" or failing to understand what the constituents actually care about. For example, you're negatively comparing Nancy Pelosi, the House Rep of one of the wealthiest districts in the country, to three senators of diverse states. I don't see what led you to that conclusion other than a ideological blind spot - all the SF homeowners who put her in office for nearly 40 years have benefited wildly from the national policies she has supported. She has so much power in Congress because she represents that district so well that she can spend all her time fundraising for other members of Congress and fighting the culture war (which, in my experience, rarely bleeds into her actual campaign because her constituency doesn't give one shit as long as their two bedroom condo is worth 7 figures). These are the "wealthy" that the GP is talking about and they've stuck with her for nearly four decades through several boom and bust cycles. Say all you want about her politics, but her constituents overwhelmingly chose her over and over again. Are they idiots? Most striking is that all of your complaints seem to be about the local politics of San Francisco - so what do Pelosi, Cruz, Sinema, or Manchin have to do with it? If they had any more than a passing, indirect influence on San Francisco decision makers, it would be a major breach of the Federal/state/local separation of powers. Likewise with monetary policy. A focus on national politics makes one completely blind to what's actually going on at a local level.