"Americans always do the right thing after exhausting all other options." I lived in the Bay Area from 1999 to 2014. I didn't leave because of crime or homeles

"Americans always do the right thing after exhausting all other options." I lived in the Bay Area from 1999 to 2014. I didn't leave because of crime or homelessness; I just got bored and wanted a change of scenery. Every few years I visit. And every time I visit, I can't believe what I see in terms of the increase of the homeless, tent cities, drug use. But the place I live now has also changed radically in the same ways in the same timeframe, just on a smaller scale. And this place is considerably less liberal than San Francisco. I don't think the whole "left/right" fight covers it, and prevents progress by distracting us from the underlying, difficult issues. There's almost certainly at least one more axis here that we're not considering.