OPINION: 'San Francisco has been called an imperial city,' and when it comes to our governance, that is not an exaggeration,' writes ericjaye in a Special to The Examiner.
A recent Sunday opinion piece from investor Michael Moritz published in the New York Times blamed progressive policies for ruining San Francisco. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight recently wrote about how local politicians are responding to a “pledge” to prosecute drug dealers. These articles serve as well-crafted bookends to the growing body of reporting blaming progressive policies for San Francisco’s rising level of homelessness, crime and general dysfunction.
Setting aside whether San Francisco is actually experiencing increased crime and homelessness, or just increased anxiety about crime and homelessness, the narrative that San Francisco is falling apart because of failing progressive policies itself falls apart under any sort of critical scrutiny based on one simple fact: Progressives are not running San Francisco in any meaningful sense.
But this simple fact is ignored in Knight’s column. Arresting and prosecuting drug dealers is the decision of two people alone – the mayor and the district attorney. It doesn’t matter what progressive Supervisor Dean Preston pledges. If drug dealers are not being arrested and prosecuted in San Francisco, the responsibility lies with Mayor London Breed and District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.
Moritz holds up Preston, a Democratic Socialist, as an exemplar of what has gone wrong with San Francisco. Once again, Preston is set up as the straw man and blamed for problems over which he has virtually no control.
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