San Francisco, solid blue city of
-- empty storefronts and missing
young people
American Thinker,
by
Monica Showalter
Original Article
Posted By: DVC,
1/13/2020 1:42:00 AM
San Francisco is getting to be a hellhole and not just because crooks are having a field day, or a vast homeless army has prompted new tech 'innovations' in poop-map apps.
It's actually becoming a city with a hollowed out look, redolent of some place like Steubenville, Ohio or maybe Utica, New York, during the bad years, empty storefronts and missing young people. So much for the trope that leftwing cities, with their walkable boulevards full of food trucks, handmade crafts, knitting shops, bookstores, artisan cheese shops, gourmet restaurants, and cafes are more lively and liveable than rightwing places.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
SALady 1/13/2020 1:56:56 AM (No. 286854)
A city full of braindead lie-berals -- who see abortion as a "sacrament" and kids as a "punishment" -- combined with homosexuals who can't have children, and you would logically expect there wouldn't be many young people walking around.
But maybe that's just me...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MOAB 1/13/2020 3:10:33 AM (No. 286862)
Typical Democrat run city corrupt to the bone and their cities have been in decline for many years. They let people take a dump in grocery store isles why not in their offices?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
The Remnants 1/13/2020 4:16:28 AM (No. 286865)
Excellent article!
San Fran - the canary in the coal mine.
But, but, but - don't the Masters of the Universe work and live in this area?
And don't they know what is best for us more than we know ourselves?
Maybe not.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DoneinCalif 1/13/2020 6:16:23 AM (No. 286895)
You are all forgetting or ignoring one thing .....these people are VOTED in. It's the morons who vote that are the root cause of the problems.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/13/2020 6:32:21 AM (No. 286907)
While a lot of good people leave the dems' -what President Trump said-holes, a lot of the crazy leftists also leave and infiltrate red states and cities. They take their idiot voting habits with them and turn red states and cities purple, then blue. Think Virginia, Colorado, etc.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
NancyD 1/13/2020 6:53:33 AM (No. 286922)
They should FORCE the people who voted for this crap to stay there, instead of moving around the country and poisoning the rest of the Nation.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
The Remnants 1/13/2020 7:00:15 AM (No. 286929)
Forgive second post, but I was thinking that those who make decisions on who is/or is not allowed on Facebook /Twitter etc.; or what is/or is not 'good taste' on their assorted platforms; or select the proper algorithms of the day (in one way or another, all censorship) have no problem with POO-POO ON THE STREETS of that once-beautiful city. It does not 'compute'.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/13/2020 7:12:43 AM (No. 286945)
If you are going to San Francisco, forget that “Flowers in the hair” thing - instead, you best put on a Hazmat suit....
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
CaptainLibra 1/13/2020 8:00:23 AM (No. 286992)
Five years ago I decided to totally boycott Saran and I refuse to even drive thru that he’ll hole. I also refuse to use SFO when flying to the Bay Area. Opt for Oakland or San Jose even if the schedule is worse. Years back I loved the place ... what a shame.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/13/2020 9:02:17 AM (No. 287072)
Driving out blacks and the poor - maybe that has been the compassionate left’s intention all along.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Galtoid 1/13/2020 9:12:19 AM (No. 287091)
Monica needs to proof her columns. Many typos make it difficult to take seriously.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 1/13/2020 9:36:29 AM (No. 287151)
Some great comments above for sure. Party purity is more important than being right. It's Leninism. I will always remember economist Robert Reich's comment on the $15.00 minimum wage... and I possibly don't quote exactly, but it went 'sure, people will lose jobs, but it's the right thing to do.' Whaaat? Unbelievable. We have some true believers out there, and crazy old Sander is the tip of the iceberg.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
little guy 1/13/2020 9:57:31 AM (No. 287186)
The ugly truth is that liberals actually don't care about poor people and never did.
What big Libs truly care about, however, is what their "progressive" friends think about them! If you don't play along and properly tut-tut about "the poor unfortunates", global warming (while living in large houses with heated pools and several cars and always flying "business") and weep crocodile-tears when you hear sad stories about life then you are heartless and have no soul --- even tho' most Libs don't believe in God or "souls". Thus, you're no longer a member in good standing of The Club. They all live well enough to be above it all and can only notice world problems while happily ignoring their own backyards.
And don't think that San Fran will be sinking any time soon as the problems aren't in the right neighborhoods. In the late 60's & early 70's New York City had the burned-out South Bronx, urban ghettos in Oceanhill-Brownsville and East New York (both Brooklyn) and South Jamaica (Queens), Harlem, Spanish Harlem & Alphabet City (on Manhattan island), etc. All big crime problem areas and all going at the same time ... but life was just great on the Upper West Side and Park Avenue!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Congar 1/13/2020 10:35:38 AM (No. 287251)
I still think of San Francisco as the shiney city on the hill of the early 1960’s, when I was a young sailor based at Alameda NAS. I haven’t been back since, and intend to keep it that way instead visiting the sewer it is now.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 1/13/2020 12:05:36 PM (No. 287334)
I'm with #10 - Everyone who thinks these results are unintended should research the Cloward-Piven strategy, designed to overwhelm the system and enable the societal breakdown necessary for the cultural Marxist rebuild. The commies have been using the poor and downtrodden to champion lawlessness masked as compassion. They want the able-bodied and clear-minded to leave. They want dysfunctional cities and states that will lead to a dysfunctional America. They almost sealed the deal in 2016, except for the MAGA disruption.
The growing power and influence of "Progressivism" is not because people from California are "infecting" conservative states. To take some posters seriously about the number of places "infected" by Californians, we'd have to have the population of China. The "infection" is already seeded in your schools and universities, in non-profits and social service agencies, in your own state capital. To keep blaming the mythical "Californians" is to blind yourselves to the danger residing in your own backyard. Oberlin College is in the middle of Ohio.
California was once a golden bastion of conservatism. We gave the country Ronald Reagan. Our decent into Marxist dystopia has been forty years in the making; slowly at first and then all at once. We voted against illegals getting welfare. It was overturned by the courts. We voted for traditional marriage. It was overturned by the courts. We recalled a corrupt lying Democrat governor and the Uniparty GOP wing saddled us with a worthless, washed-up, silver-screen "hero". Conservatives and just generally good people moved out rather than stay and fight the corruption. I did not leave America during the Obamanation transformation. I will not abandon my birthright to the Golden State because of Gruesome Newsom. I also believe that President Trump will not abandon us either.
MAGA-KAG: Its for all 50 states.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
jfodoch 1/13/2020 12:23:01 PM (No. 287353)
Yes, #10, and they're driving out taxpayers. They're too short-sighted to see this, and it will spell their doom.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 1/13/2020 1:24:09 PM (No. 287437)
Ouch. I am very familiar with Utica, NY. I grew up nearby. It feels like it has been slowly dying for 50 years. The only thing that keeps it alive is the Utica politicians sell their votes to Albany and get state aid to build enormous road projects and state office buildings. Utica has these great arching roadways that's only purpose is allow people to escape the area. The state bureaucracy is bloated so they have all these office buildings for no good purpose.
The elite in San Francisco have forced a lot of the poor out of the area, except for the ones too poor to flee. Then the elite demand that the State find the exportees and take care of them. Liberal cities and states are dying. WHY would we want them to be in charge of the Country and expand their failures in government to a national level?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
vinegrower 1/13/2020 1:39:24 PM (No. 287460)
I wish the Democrats were losing Congressional seats but that is not happening. In 2018 they managed to take some of the few Republican seats in Orange County, by vote harvesting. Don't know why the author would make that statement.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 1/13/2020 2:30:38 PM (No. 287500)
Just wait until they split the Prop. 13 property tax initiative later this year. It's essentially their desire to gain more revenues from those who remain.
And, they're calling it the California Schools and Local Communities Funding Act, in the obvious need to fool people into voting for something they likely would not.
Supposedly it will only affect certain sized business, targeting Disney who purchased a piece of land in the 1950's, and the property taxes are capped based on Prop. 13 at only 2% increase per year. They want that land, and many others, to be re-assessed at current market values, so they MUST pay more that will ultimately fund schools and local communities, or so they say - likely to mostly shore-up their under-funded pensions.
They say small businesses won't be affected, but how many small businesses own the land and building they work out of?
And, when those funds don't measure up, they'll go after the homeowners - I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't a clause in the current split roll initiative that will enable them to unlock the homeowners too.
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Dems said banks were too big to fail.
They think San Francisco is too beautiful to fail.
2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them STRONG DELUSION, that they should believe a lie.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
XCenturion 1/13/2020 4:21:20 PM (No. 287597)
San Fran Cesspool to be more accurate.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Smart11344 1/14/2020 2:01:39 PM (No. 288450)
Normal people are getting out of SF before an actual plague sets in from all of the fecal filth.
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Like she says, with costs too high and quality of life too low, the left drives out the ordinary people who are needed to make the city into a real place. And as these foundational businesses are crushed under the neo-Bolsheviks' relentless boot heels, the rest of the city starts to slowly collapse, too.