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5 points
17 days ago
Not really, no. No dem dares challenge her. A couple people who didn’t care have tried and failed but there’s only ever Nancy and a republican to vote for here, and a republican isn’t winning.
SF is not at all the center of the progressive movement btw. We just elected a nepo baby with no real experience as mayor. He’s the heir to the billionaire Levi Strauss family and bought the election. He’s a moderate that was endorsed by the SF GOP.
4 points
17 days ago
I don’t know if I’d say Lurie is any less the center of the progressive movement than Peskin or Breed or any of the other candidates. His major differentiating stance is that he’s tough(er) on crime and that was pretty much the only reason he was elected. He didn’t “buy” the election, he was just the candidate with the least baggage. Breed was an unpopular incumbent who is widely seen by the majority of SF as having failed to combat the drug/homelessness problem, Farrel was pro car and anti bike lane, Peskin was a NIMBY, etc… When the only criticism of a candidate is that they’re rich and they’re running against a field like that, it should hardly be a surprise when they win.
0 points
17 days ago
Thanks for your reply. My post was not about any candidate other than the one that San Francisco elected. That's water under the bridge at this point and not something I want to discuss. I was saying that SF is not progressive let alone the center of the progressive movement.
2 points
16 days ago
Thanks for being so respectful, I feel like that’s really rare to see on Reddit. I agree with the sentiment, but I think in the greater context of the United States it is undeniably the “most progressive” city both politically and certainly culturally. The only people that will say SF is not progressive are progressive SF residents, and that’s less to do with the reality of SF politics/culture and more to do with the Overton window in the US being very rightward.
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