San Francisco, California — once known for its hippies, techies, and human rights, now known for drugs, filth, and being the butt of too many jokes on Fox News. Let’s dive into how we got to this point, and the right questions to ask moving forward.
It’s so simple: it starts Us and ends with 11 politicians. The Supervisors (10) and The Mayor of SF; 11 votes. Thanks to Aaron Peskin, the most malignant politician in SF history, since year 2000 SF has been a soft mayor town — aka no laws or motions can be passed without 7 out of 11 votes. Often alliances are made to ensure that issues remain in the same districts (so High School!) and that the collateral damage continues - each of the 11 forgetting that We Are All Connected.
A wise man shared with me once that “politics is the manifestation of our subconscious,” - these 11 who can’t accomplish anything respectable is a manifestation of Us, voters. Us.
With that in the back of our minds, some issues we owe to this administration, and some aren’t their doing, but responsibility to address. The crux of the city’s dilemma is that this losing team has been testing dystopian, extreme, experimental agendas on people who are longterm locals, in areas we need the most support:
housing policies & the homeless crisis
tourism & a monolithic economy
safety, law enforcement, & terrible course-correction
finally, drug use & “wellness” zones (really, whose wellness are we working towards?)
Clearly, this team shouldn’t be allowed a second term, especially given that none have presented viable solutions to rectify the issues SF residents have expressed for over a year. To quote Phoebe Buffay, they “don’t even have a ‘pla’”.
It’s been tough to see the bustling crowds dwindle and see our beloved streets, neighborhoods, and aura be overwhelmed with human filth, drug matter, trash, etc. — it’s not fair for a city to evacuate, for the solution being to ‘leave San Francisco if you don’t like it’ — advice from the people who got us into this mess, the ones who should be leaving.
I was born and raised here and deeply, deeply care for it as such. SF’s identity is grounded in abundance and love. Abundant everywhere. Peace everywhere. What was not to love? There was so much to love. Now we have rules, rules, rules. Please thank Aaron Peskin who slowly started to chip away at SF’s best political era, ever. Fast forward, that brings us to these 11 who have created so much ill-will amongst each other that it’s no wonder SF is broken on the inside, always beautiful on the outside.
SF in the 90’s was art, beautiful streets, love, respecting everyone’s mental well-being, a city for children, what has happened to us? I see SF as someone who sees Aaron’s experimental (napoleonic complex) failures.
Most importantly, back to Us, since this is about us, I know our subconscious can do this: we can put ego aside to hold 11 people to account and instead put abundance, results and love in its place. I can think of so many solutions, so many. We can do this! SF is bursting with potential now and it’s such a sensitive time. None of the solutions will come from these 11. They have shown us who they are.
We’re a city full of creatives and innovators, maybe it’s time to really reflect back inwards and think, is this the best we can do?
Comments