Been in SF for 2 hours and it’s heartbreaking. Streets lined with people keeled over, worse than ever. Drugs everywhere. I step into one store where a shoplifter gets caught and beats up a cashier until the police come.
Heading back to the airport.
Congrats @chesaboudin!
-
Show this thread
-
Replying to @rivatez @chesaboudin
No government that fails to maintain civic order can remain legitimate for long in the eyes of its citizens.
9 replies 5 retweets 161 likes -
Feels like SF is has been well past the point of failing to maintain civic order for sometime. And the voters there instead of changing course, elect a DA who doesn’t believe in prosecuting criminals.
4 replies 6 retweets 93 likes -
The further it goes, and the longer it goes on, the sharper the backlash will be. I just barely remember pre-Giuliani NYC... it was really scary, and eventually the citizens had enough.
1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes -
Replying to @moseskagan @mchowla and
The difference: many of those who got fed up in NYC were parents w/ kids in the home or older residents in long-term rent-controlled apartments who feared for their lives. I’m guessing San Fran has a much lower % of parents and the old have sold out for big $ and left the city.
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @BobStein_FT @mchowla and
I take your point, and I think the backlash might take longer to arrive bc SF lacks some of those factors. But it will come; it's an iron law of history that people will not tolerate disorder indefinitely.
1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @moseskagan @mchowla and
I’m less certain that an Iron Law dictates a backlash. When was there backlash in Detroit? Instead, it just became unlivable for the middle class and above, they left, and that was the end of the that.
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @BobStein_FT @mchowla and
Good point. By the time that Detroit got the way it got, most of the wealth, and most of the high paying jobs, had been transferred to the suburbs. That wasn't the case in NY, and I don't think it will be the case in SF.
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
To compare SF to Detroit/New York is to compare apples to oranges. Both fruit but a different kind of sweet. Those of us that were born here and don’t call the mid-west home know that this phase will pass. We don’t get caught up in the intermediate. Change will happen as needed.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.