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Even Democrats Like Me Are Fed Up with San Francisco

• newaccount2021 4y ago
  Easiest solution: move and let it fail Reform is otherwise either totally impossible or practically impossible on an adult's reasonable time horizon Any attempt at change will result in the change agent being labeled a Nazi or a Trumper Just let it fail After the failure is objective, the rats will scurry and real change will be possible It would have been useful for Moritz to at least acknowledge how much of California feudalism has been geared to rewarding his ilk If you are a rich VC, how about just building twenty houses?
  • makeitrain 4y ago
    How did Rudy Giuliani clean up New York?
    • cafard 4y ago
      Did Rudy Giuliani clean up New York, or did he just get elected when things were turning around? In any case, New York City includes its own suburbs, as San Francisco does not.
    • polski-g 4y ago
      The same way Bukele cleaned up El Salvador.
  • Khaine 4y ago
    What's to stop the people who flee from pushing the failed policies that caused San Fran to become like this in the jurisdiction they flee to?
  • jmeister 4y ago
    >If you are a rich VC, how about just building twenty houses? There is no dearth of people wanting to build houses. They just cannot get permissions.
• timfsu 4y ago
  It seems like the author's main argument is (1) the referendum system, (2) the board of supervisors, and (3) the one-party system are the problem. I understand you can address (2) by defeating them in elections, but structurally there doesn't seem to be any reasonable way to change any of these structural systems without large-scale overhaul to how the city itself is governed.