San Francisco’s Slow-Motion Suicide
February 11th, 2022Via: Michael Shellenberger:
At this point all I can say is: go and see it.
Over the past two years, more than 1,360 people have died from drug overdoses in San Francisco. That is more than double the number who have died from Covid.
But you don’t need more stats. You don’t need more numbers about how the tent encampments are exploding. Or about the amount of money that the city is paying for each person doing drugs on the sidewalks. You need to see it.
I’m serious. Everyone in San Francisco should make a trip downtown. Walk around. And do not avert your eyes to the people dying slowly on the streets.
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As recently as three years ago, I still identified pretty strongly with the political “left”. Now it just seems like the left, or what passes for it in official circles, is bound and determined to discredit itself in any way it can. I identify as a heterodox libertarian these days, because it has become really difficult to look at the left as anything other than a form of serious social maladjustment. And that description is from when I’m in a charitable mood!