The city of San Francisco, California has been a Mecca for liberals since the hippie days of the 1960’s. The tie-dyed flower children, who flocked there to do drugs and have sex in the streets, inevitably grew up. They needed jobs to feed the results of all that free love, since there weren’t extensive social welfare programs at the time, which made them cut their hair to blend in with the squares. They didn’t have to like or accept that new arrangement at face value, though, so went into politics. Finally, after 50 years, the radical longhairs were in the position they waited for all their lives. They obtained their life-long ambitions to engineer an anarchist operation worthy of the original movement. One designed to get back at those pigs who harassed them half a century ago. Simply “defund” them right out of existence. The revolution came around full circle and it’s about to roll over Mayor London Breed and her progressive administration. Once lovely San Francisco “has transformed into a den of homelessness, mentally ill and fentanyl.”
A Third World city
Phil Matier is a journalist. He works for the certified liberal ABC affiliate in the city of San Francisco and he’s appalled at the Mad Max style dystopia outside his media newsroom.
Tents line the sidewalks as mentally ill and homeless zombies shuffle through the streets leaving deadly fentanyl crumbs everywhere they fall over. The Narcan bill alone is a challenge to the city’s treasurer. The hippie liberals may have spent their careers building high tech cutting edge innovation but they’re now overrun by zombies.
When the city’s woke officials finally awakened to the scope of the problem, they quickly learned that they had defunded and disbanded the solution. They called in the National Guard to clean up the “Tenderloin” district which is basically one big “open air drug market.” To back up the guard, city leaders pulled a handful of traffic cops off freeway patrol. The first day they hit the ground, they backed away in a hasty retreat.
San Francisco is a disaster. This is what’s in store for the rest of civilization if we do not stop the woke mind virus. pic.twitter.com/69AhoXXUcx
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 17, 2023
The CHP went back to “directing traffic.” The National Guard found an office building they could secure and opened a base camp to coordinate attacks against the cartel suppliers, if they ever make any progress learning who they are. Local police simply refuse to go in because they’re outnumbered by zombies.
According to Matier, San Francisco is “no longer at the top of the class.” The city is becoming something you would expect to find in an El Salvadoran barrio. Considering that sections of the metropolis are occupied by former residents of that same barrio it’s easy to see how that happens. Those are the ones running the drug swap mart.
“You see empty offices, and you see tents. Added into this mix, however, is something that we’re seeing across the country that is just like an acid corrosive, and that’s fentanyl.”
Overdose deaths spiking
While some call it a “self-correcting” problem, overdoses from fentanyl are happening often enough that it’s become a huge burden on city resources. The paramedics risk their lives to respond and administer dose after dose of Narcan until the victim starts to breathe again. Sometimes they don’t The deaths aren’t happening often enough for the trend to abate. It only gets worse.
Conservatives blame the whole vicious cycle on progressive policies which decriminalize drugs, even the hardest ones. They also decriminalized all the crimes junkies use to support their habits like shoplifting, prostitution and armed robbery.
“You put homelessness, mentally ill, and fentanyl together, and it’s worse than the Third World.” All of this, Matier insists is happening right under the noses of “the rich and the powerful.” Not only is the crisis tolerated in the city, “until recently it was almost ignored.”
#CA #SanFrancisco has the cheapest fentanyl in the United States of America. At just $4 a gram, it is cheaper than a loaf of bread, a gallon of milk and a gallon of gasoline. Local leaders have streamlined fentanyl. Fentanyl has become the mainstay of the San Francisco economy. pic.twitter.com/tHedd8KAl1
— World Peace Movement (@darren_stallcup) May 17, 2023
It’s no wonder that recent headlines are calling San Francisco a “decaying” and “crime-ridden hellhole.” It’s clear, Matier points out, that their leaders “made too many wrong turns.”
“The crash in tech, the Covid, the working remotely has changed the entire character of the city,” Matier notes. Block after block feature “offices, huge, massive office complexes that are empty.” It’s like the end of the big gold rush. “They’re, in effect, the empty gold mine shafts because the miners have moved away. And what do you do with an empty shaft?”
You certainly don’t get much tax money out of it. As the editorial board of The San Francisco Chronicle warns, letting people work virtually to avoid the dangerous downtown could send the city “into a ‘doom loop‘ that would gut its tax base, decimate fare-reliant regional transit systems like BART and trap it in an economic death spiral.“
