Re:Could High-Speed Rail Ease California’s Housing Crisis? S...
by dragonwriter on Friday January 25, 2019 @07:20PM
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> It makes me wonder if there just aren't enough people who share my values but actually have skill in governance.
The people who come in with skill in governance and are in a highly-visible local government like SF rapidly move up and out of local government.
For that matter, term limits mean they move out even if they don't move up.
> I identify as a liberal democrat, it makes me sad that a city that has been under the control of my preferred political ideology for decades is so completely dysfunctional.
SF hasn't been under liberal democratic control for decades (at least by any single coherent definition of “liberal democrat”, which has two opposed uses—it can refer either to the center-right neoliberal or center-left progressive faction of the party, and the two have been back and forth in SF.)
The people who come in with skill in governance and are in a highly-visible local government like SF rapidly move up and out of local government.
For that matter, term limits mean they move out even if they don't move up.
> I identify as a liberal democrat, it makes me sad that a city that has been under the control of my preferred political ideology for decades is so completely dysfunctional.
SF hasn't been under liberal democratic control for decades (at least by any single coherent definition of “liberal democrat”, which has two opposed uses—it can refer either to the center-right neoliberal or center-left progressive faction of the party, and the two have been back and forth in SF.)