San Francisco’s High-Tech Aristocracy Rules Its Third-World Citizens
“In America’s most liberal city, increasingly visible homeless camps are a stark symbol of San Francisco’s economic hollowing out and the failure of progressive governance” begins a muckraking expose in The Federalist entitled “San Francisco’s Homeless Encampments Expose The Failure Of A Liberal Utopia. The friend who forwarded this article tongue-in-cheekly advised me to “Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair” as I read about this Sanctuary City that can rival other well-known Third World urban centers where tourists are largely restricted to genteel parts of town to hide the nearby dire poverty.
States the author John Daniel Davidson, ”I heard the problem had gotten so bad that the Target store downtown keeps its tents in a locked glass case. A quick visit confirmed the rumor: not only were the tents under lock and key, so were the camping gear and backpacks. While I was there, a homeless man in a trench coat loitered in front of the tent case, muttering to himself and pawing at the glass.” The rich California liberals don’t see any of this as they leave in their BMW’s for a well-appointed camping trip in the nearby Sierras or Coast Range. At one time, they themselves were hippie squatters in various scenic venues.
But it’s not just about economics, but politics as well: “The top four candidates in the current mayoral race—an African-American woman, an Asian-American woman, an Hispanic woman, and an openly gay man—will all be ‘firsts,’ no matter who wins the special election in June. Also certain: the winner will be a Democrat.” Simply put, others are not welcomed as civic managers. The liberal ruling class needs the Sanctuary City status to attract and box-in such an unlikely coalition.
Encouraging immigration from poor countries easily follows. Someone has to be the servant class, supplying the cheap labor that fuels the lifestyles of rich liberals. As Davidson continues, “It’s not just homeless encampments that bedevil San Francisco, but also the flight of the middle class and the emergence of a kind of citywide caste system: the wealthy, the service class, and the destitute.”
Armed with their media monopoly, both broadcast and print, California perversely leads an entertainment-drugged US population toward a dark utopia that they little suspect: “day-to-day living in San Francisco now involves navigating incessant petty crime, used needles, and human feces: ‘The public defecation problem has become so intolerable in San Francisco that private citizens have built an online map to track the concentrations of poop in the city, so that pedestrians may know to avoid certain areas.’ A recent visit to downtown San Francisco by a special United Nations envoy on adequate housing made headlines when the envoy compared conditions in the city to what she’d seen in the streets of Mumbai and Mexico City.” The irony escapes most of our pop-cultural tourists.
