San Francisco voting results show political shift happening

This election was very much about the lawlessness in the cities. Lenient DAs, defund the police , retail theft, drugs, migrants, and homelessness all factored in to it. It is very real to people. I’ve been condemned for saying this on DL but time to face the facts.

Gascon’s ouster was a plus. Bragg we are looking at you.

San Francisco is a city built on Democratic centrism, not progressivism. Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom are not progressive.

Somewhere along the line, being “liberal” was deemed too mainstream and you got progressives. Progressiveness is not based on economic justice on the traditional far left spectrum. It is an affluent fetish centered around social justice. It was ripe for San Franciscans, a city with probably the highest number of wine and cheese shops per capita.

Wasn’t there a sign with the school board election recalls in 2022?

San Francisco is built on more of a Gold Rush type value system, grab it before the other guy can, ism. You can tell somethings awry just by the fact that a group called themselves Progressives. There is nothing wrong with wine and cheese however.

There was also a proposition on the ballot to close the Great Highway (the main road adjacent to the ocean) to traffic.

A lot of the residents in the Western part of the city opposed this, as it was going to bring traffic from a four lane artery onto their residential streets. This is also the part of the city that overwhelmingly voted against the school board and Chesa Boudin a couple of years ago.

r1, then you are a liar. crime is down

Are you drunk, R4?

The beatdown of progessives was even worse across the bay in Oakland. Pam Price (Alaemda County DA) and Sheng Thao (Oakland mayor) were both recalled in landslides - about 65% to 35%.

[qoute]then you are a liar. crime is down

People believe their own eyes.

The new SF Mayor, Daniel Lurie, is a wealthy heir to the Levi fortune. He bought the race and no one knows if he will be any good.

That’s good news. The Oakland Mayor seemed quite insane. please NYC, get rid of DA Bragg at your first opportunity.

California as a whole moved to the right. Prop 35 (increasing penalties for things like shoplifting) passed in every country, even Santa Cruz and San Francisco. Voters also rejected raising the minimum wage to $18 an hour.

Entire USA moved to the Right

That amoral hypocritical degenerate Scott Wiener needs to go too!

Majority of the USA is ok with gays and are even cool with gay marriage. BUT it stops there.

Most Americans are highly uncomfortable with trans people and anything considered woke such as the pronoun nonsense.

It doesn't matter what the American people think as much as the folks who will assume power, and I think they'll give a different answer to the items you pose R15.

San Franciscans are just sick and tired of crime, like everyone else.

Let's hope this new Mayor fixes the problem.