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You don't know SF politics if you think people here are going to start voting in Republicans.
Chesa Boudin Recalled by San Francisco Voters
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As I understand it, Boudin barely eked out a win to begin with. Philadelphia is about twice the size of San Francisco, which has outsized visibility in our political culture but is in fact about the size of Nashville. Philly overwhelmingly reelected its progressive prosecutor. There's something to be said for the idea that, ideology aside, you also just have to seem good at the actual job; the job is not simply a ser…
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Ah, I see. No true leftist.
I can't find anything the guy has said about the benefits of communisim, or worker revolts, I'm certainly open to change my mind if I've just missed his Leninist screed somewhere. Please link.
Otherwise, no, hes not far left, some people around here just think anyone left of Mussolini is a socialistcommunist and can't tell the words apart, and that hurts everyone when it isn't called out, as it drags discourse further down.
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I’m curious how many people would agree with this comment. If Chesa and his policies are not considered far left, who/what is? It seems that his polices were on the extreme end of the progressive spectrum, and that both his supporters and critics would agree with that statement.
Politically I think the "don't enforce the law" camp includes the median democratic voter, especially in SF.
People keep getting shot and burgled in my neighborhood which used to be quite safe, the only thing keeping me from voting Republican until Democrats learn to stop being stupid is that the Republicans are so opportunistic and unprincipled that they'll gladly cheer while the republic is overthrown.
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I agree with you, but this is more a matter of linguistic convenience than lack of education or perspective imo. The people who call chesa far left in the USA know perfectly well what they mean, other people have no trouble understanding it either.
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When you're writing things like "you're part of the problem", you've departed from the norms of this place. There's a place for that kind of advocacy, but it's not HN; we're here for curious conversation. Even some people ordinarily inclined to agree with you will recoil from this kind of rhetoric here.
Agreed on avoiding finger pointing. But the bit about "American Far Left" is spot on.
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#48>Crime overall has fallen since Mr. Boudin took office in January 2020 lol, that's pretty easy to do when you just stop prosecuting people. Same way graduation rates increase if you just stop failing people. Who cares about the actual purpose of institutions or whether goals are being achieved, just make sure the numbers are what we want https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1533544746173571079
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#49>Crime overall has fallen since Mr. Boudin took office in January 2020 lol, that's pretty easy to do when you just stop prosecuting people. Same way graduation rates increase if you just stop failing people. Who cares about the actual purpose of institutions or whether goals are being achieved, just make sure the numbers are what we want https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1533544746173571079
> lol, that's pretty easy to do when you just stop prosecuting people. Same way graduation rates increase if you just stop failing people.
Or the way COVID cases drop when you stop testing!
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> Chesa represents what I believe will be a self-inflicted shift to the Republican Party by many moderate and formerly left wing voters.
It won't change much locally beyond the Democrats that win being one notch closer to moderate. Nationally, it feeds a narrative Republicans will push about how this is what the most progressive policies in the country will get you, then re-air the video of people shooting up in the Civic Center BART station.