SF reminds me of NYC in the 70’s. I’m on the Board of a national organization. We rejected SF as a site for our national convention because of the conditions described in this post. The limousine liberals need to walk the streets.

By Thomas Fuller, New York Times
Oct. 8, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO — The heroin needles, the pile of excrement between parked cars, the yellow soup oozing out of a large plastic bag by the curb and the
stained, faux Persian carpet dumped on the corner.

"This .. street crime and .. grinding, persistent homelessness and the dehumanizing
effects for those forced to live on the streets provoke
outrage ...‘You Have to Hold Your Breath’...

For many who live here it’s difficult to reconcile San Francisco’s liberal politics with the misery that surrounds them." --www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/san-francisco-dirtiest-street-london-breed.html
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~ Although perhaps not logically related as as a necessary causal agent,
might not the refusal to cooperate with U.S. Immigration also provide
collateral sanctuary to narcos?

"It's almost impossible to get convicted in this city,"
noted one officer in the narcotics division.

This booking photo released by the SF Police Department shows Orlando Vilchez Lazo. Police say Lazo, a serial rapist since 2013, has been arrested after he allegedly preyed on women by posing as a ride-hailing driver and picking up
women waiting for rides in San Francisco.

U.S. immigration officials took aim at San Francisco’s sanctuary city law
Monday in the case of the .. accused .. “Rideshare Rapist.”

~[At least Gavin Newsom realizes:] “You can be too permissive and I happen to
think we have crossed that threshold in this state — and not just in this city,”
Newsom said. “You see it. It’s just disgraceful.”

~ Certainly a dystopian socialism.

""Low income people of color are getting displaced from long standing communities of color and are often being pushed to new areas of high poverty often on the
urban periphery:"" ... they often end up paying more where they move ...
40% of low-income Alameda County African Americans left the Bay
Area altogether. .researchers are calling [it] .. a new form of
re-segregation."

~ http://www.ktvu.com/news/study-links-bay-area-economic-boom-to-new-segregation;
~ https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/ICE-takes-aim-at-SF-sanctuary-city-law-in-13080448.php

I was struck by the statement, "For many who live here it is difficult to reconcile San Francisco's liberal politics with the misery that surrounds them."

Is it difficult to reconcile high humidity with frequent rain?

Is it difficult to reconcile faults in the earth's crust with earthquakes?

Not if you understand basic cause and effect.