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Is San Francisco still liberal?
[NYPOST] the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
 is known as a reliably liberal city to most of America, but a Los Angeles Times editor believes there are signs that the City by the Bay has swung to the center, as voters are sick of rising crime rates and ramped-up drug use and remain shaken from COVID-era shutdowns.
San Francisco’s center is still far to the left of most of the country. So is that of the Los Angeles Times.
The L.A. Times published a piece on Thursday headlined, ''San Francisco has shifted to the center. Can a progressive still compete there?'' Times audience engagement editor Defne Karabatur kicked off the piece by asking, ''Has famously liberal San Francisco moved too far right to embrace an old-school progressive for mayor?''

The L.A. paper noted the presidential election will be here soon and that ''outrage over the progressive agenda is playing out in an unlikely place: The San Francisco mayoral race.''

''My colleague Hannah Wiley looked into the race this week and found that only one of the race's five candidates, San Francisco Board of Supervisors president Aaron Peskin, is running on a progressive agenda. And he's the underdog,'' Karabatur wrote before fretting, ''What does it all mean? Is San Francisco no longer a bastion of progressive politics? What even is progressivism?''

Aaron Peskin, seen as the most progressive of the Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
 to enter the mayor's contest, is seen as an ''underdog'' compared to incumbent Democratic San Francisco Mayor London Breed, former interim Mayor Mark Farrell, Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie and S.F. Board of Supervisors member Ahsha Safa , according to the Times.




Posted by: Fred 2024-09-23
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