With a new majority on the Board of Supervisors, along with control over the Mayor’s and District Attorney’s Offices, the school board, and the local Democratic County Central Committee, political power in San Francisco has been consolidated in the hands of so-called “moderates” funded by and friendly to the interests of the tech and real estate industries. Put in the language of our political moment, San Francisco’s halls of power are awash with Abundance. Not coincidentally, San Franciscans are suffering more than ever in just about every measurable way, and City Hall is simply ignoring their plight. […]
San Franciscans are highly preoccupied with Trump’s shocking and constant attacks on democracy, ICE raids disappearing of our neighbors, and exacerbation of the two-year-long genocide in Gaza. Mayor Lurie barely acknowledges these issues. In contrast to big city mayors like Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Lurie refuses to take a stand against ICE kidnappings and his police department won’t even protect those who do. Outrageously, SFPD’s stated position is that its priority is to protect ICE agents from protestors.
This is a stunning lack of leadership for a Democratic mayor in a sanctuary city widely considered to be the nation’s progressive heartland, at the precise moment when American fascism begs confrontation. But even more squarely on the plate of San Francisco’s current leaders is the fact that local economic conditions have rapidly deteriorated for the city’s working people and poor in the short time since they came into power.
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