San Francisco voters are rolling back “progressive” fantasies in law enforcement, school, and drug and welfare policies. At what point do those voters hold it against the politicians and progressive activists who drove them to this point?
San Francisco’s voters are projected to have approved several propositions that would roll back progressive policies or influence. Proposition E would allow police to chase suspects more often, allow police to use surveillance drones and place security cameras on public property, and roll back oversight micromanaging from bureaucrats, among other things. It is on pace to pass with 60% of the vote from Tuesday’s election.
Proposition F, which mandates that adult welfare recipients seek drug treatment if they are addicted before they are allowed to collect welfare money, is on pace to pass with 63% of the vote. Democratic Mayor London Breed, who supported both measures, has already declared victory on them. Along with those, the nonbinding Proposition G, which encourages public schools to offer Algebra 1 to students by eighth grade, is winning with 84% of the vote.
In essence, San Francisco voters are tired of progressive decision-makers hamstringing police officers, enabling drug addicts to fall further into their addictions, and depriving students of academic opportunities. Couple that with the recalls of woke school board members and a pro-criminal district attorney, and you have a city that is rejecting the progressive orthodoxy that was allowed to run rampant throughout the halls of power.
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At what point, then, does San Francisco stop electing the same old Democrats and listening to the same old progressive activists? If someone did such an awful job painting your house that you had to start over from scratch, would you then hire that same person to paint it again? Of course not. Yet, that is what San Francisco has done for decades, culminating in the spiral the city is in now.
Eventually, you would think San Francisco voters would get tired of cleaning up the messes created by the people they put into power. Running your city by throwing feces at the wall, or, in San Francisco’s case, on the sidewalks, and then relying on ballot propositions to fix things is not sustainable. If San Francisco voters want out of the city’s cycle of decay, they need to vote like it all the time.
