@layman,
It's a real mess out there, but it has been for a long time. My brother lives in California for half the year, but only because both of his kids and their families live there. He's as far left as I am right, but even he is having a hard time accepting the insanity. The housing market alone is crazy with a little 1,600 sf bungalow in the LA area going for at least $1,000,000. The income disparities among Californians is a bad or worse than anywhere else in the country, and with public officials deliberately stymying ICE agents trying to round up illegal immigrants guilty of far worse crimes than crossing our border without permission, the crime rate has to be on the rise.
How does a great American city like San Francisco lose an AMA Convention because human feces are all over their streets and creating a health hazard?
The last thing I read about San Francisco's solution for their homeless problem was that they were planning on flying the indigents to the homes of relatives in other states. How the hell is that going to work? How many families will want to take in a long lost Uncle who is a drunk/drug addict and/or mentally disturbed? And that's what the city is dealing with. People who are down on their luck and temporarily living in their cars are a) probably not interested in being flown to a sister's home in Topeka, and b) not defecating in the streets. Seems like a very expensive way to do very little about the problem.
It's as if Californians have signed a massive statewide suicide pact. They'll all be virtue signaling in their graves.
