Is San Francisco finally trying to reverse its progressive decay?
Zachary Faria
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San Francisco has been undergoing a reckoning with the woke liberalism that has ruined the city. It may now finally be reconnecting with sanity.
In her State of the City address on Thursday, Mayor London Breed (D) declared that “our residents are demanding we build back the police force, and we need to deliver.” She announced her opposition to “open-air drug dealing.” She intends to pause tax increases for retail businesses and make the city’s tax structure more competitive.
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The speech of course brought backlash from other San Francisco leaders, who are just fine with a skeleton crew police department, open-air drug dealing, and businesses fleeing for greener pastures. There are questions about whether Breed even intends to follow through on these promises, let alone if she will be able to convince other San Francisco officials to join them. And yet, it is promising to hear the leader of one of the poster cities for progressive decay pay lip service to reversing that decay.
Voters in San Francisco have already started that process. In February 2022, they recalled three woke members of the city’s school board in response to them prioritizing renaming schools over opening schools during the pandemic and also in response to the racial politics being peddled in both policies and rhetoric. The recalls weren’t even close, with all three being tossed out of office by more than 70% of the city’s voters.
Those voters then followed that up by recalling soft-on-crime district attorney Chesa Boudin in June 2022. Inspired by his terrorist parents, Boudin had made it his goal to ensure that criminals served as little time in prison as possible. Voters understandably were not pleased with seeing repeat criminals repeatedly victimize their businesses and communities. They therefore evicted him.
If Breed is willing and able to pursue her stated goals of beefing up the police department, addressing the health and safety issues of brazen drug dealing and public drug usage, and trying to make it cheaper to live and run a business in the city, it would signal a real turnaround from what San Francisco has experienced for years. The woke fever may finally be breaking in the Bay Area.
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