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Yes. As a resident of SF I was curious, accepting, and optimistic of our policy experiments in the following: 1. Effectively decriminalizing all drugs 2. Focu
by CityOfThrowaway 5y ago
Yes. As a resident of SF I was curious, accepting, and optimistic of our policy experiments in the following:
1. Effectively decriminalizing all drugs
2. Focus on harm reduction instead of police enforcement to reduce drug problems
3. Bureaucracy free disbursement of cash aid to those who need it
4. Decarceration and jail avoidance as a method of preventing structural employer discrimination of people with records from ruining peoples lives
It didn't work. The city is a mess in all of the ways that the harshest critics of these policies predicted. It wasn't hard to predict, but the vision of equitable, punishment-free utopia beguiled the population and led them to mayhem.
We need to reverse course, yet the most vocal proponents are doubling down on their failed agenda.
- swearwolf 5y agoThis is probably the most disappointing thing about being on the left in the U.S. - we’re supposed to be the people who “believe science” and “trust the data”, but I’ve never once seen advocates for this policy or that reverse course when it’s obvious that policy is a failure. Instead, they seem to head straight for the No True Scotsman fallacy. It didn’t work, but only because we didn’t really commit to it. Next time we’ll do it twice as hard and spend three times as much doing it. And if it does work then, it’s because of capitalism. Or white supremacy. Or the patriarchy. If we just fix those, it’ll definitely work. And if not, it’s only because we didn’t really fix those things right because the master’s tools can’t tear down the master’s house.