This "Potemkin Village" metaphor for San Francisco, as the city suddenly cleans up its beggar-and-druggie problem in preparation for the arrival of Xi Jinping and other leaders, has really blown up over the last couple of days. Arguments are raging about how the city could have cleaned all of this up beforehand instead of sitting on its collective ass. Then, of course, there's the fact that the current cleanup is merely for show: the city will quickly revert to its filthy ways once the foreign leaders are gone. The whole thing is sad to watch from afar. Here's Styx on the problem:
I think the consistently conservative position, though, should be that it was always up to the citizenry, not the government, to do something about the situation. As tempting as it is to blame the government for San Francisco's current mess, the citizens are the ones who voted for this, so ultimately, the people of San Francisco are to blame for their own predicament.
And those people are, obviously, idiots who will continue to vote Democrat.
Again and again.
We truly do live in the Matrix.
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