In a nutshell, San Francisco’s ultra-liberal policies fight for the right of doing drugs and potentially dying on the streets, because they believe that actually helping these people would be akin to penalizing them because they are poor or jobless, or would be an infringement to their freedom. Helping them really means detaining them and/or forcing rehab for their benefit and the benefit of the community. Many of them suffer from mental illness, often induced by drug consumption, or that leads to drug consumption, but apparently detaining or forcing treatment is considered to be more cruel than letting them die, and so nobody does nothing with huge negative externalities in the community (besides the actual people involved and their families).

In San Francisco there are open-air drug markets that nobody shuts down, where illegals are selling “death” 24/7. Of course San Francisco is a “Sanctuary City” so they don’t collaborate with immigration services to deport the drug dealers, let alone shut down the drug trade.

Of course keeping to feed their addictions with public money doesn’t actually help them and they eventually die on the sidewalk by over dosing or other drug-related complications. Hundreds of them die every year, it’s really despicable.

San Francisco has a large network of no-profits that exists with the sole purpose of trying to “help” the homeless population by encouraging “clean” use of drugs (they distribute needles and other drug accessories), and they are the recipients of 1B+ of funds every year from city hall [1].

Many of these no-profits are plagued with corruption [2], the Mayor itself and people in her circle have been investigated/arrested [3], but nobody does nothing because they are afraid to lose the ultra-liberal vote. Now that the tide is starting (very slowly) to shift, we are seeing politician’s big talk to clean up the city, so far with poor results and no action.

Of course with more than a billion dollars on the line every year, some people started to wonder if these no-profits really want to solve the problem (they don’t) to keep the money flowing, and the pockets of corruption ongoing.

An interesting book to read is San Fran-Sicko [4] which analyzes this phenomenal in ultra liberal cities. It’s so bad that kids are accidentally ingesting Fentanyl at the park [5].

Even being a moderate democrat acting rationally will earn you the label of “fascist” by the ultra progressives.

Ultimately, this will be remembered as a very dark era in the history of San Francisco and everyone involved has blood on their hands, including the voters and supporters of these ultraliberal policies that lead to death and desperation.

[1] https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-11-billion-...

[2] https://sfist.com/2024/02/23/scandal-plagued-sfpd-partner-no...

[3] https://www.ktvu.com/news/former-sf-official-agrees-to-plea-...

[4] San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

[5] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-au...