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I Tried Listening to This and I'm Even More Convinced Woke Stupidity, NOT Capitalism, Ruined San Francisco

Sometimes some YouTubers may be making more sense than the news. Misha Petrov's commentary on San Francisco is backed up by the news. As I listened to her and her male companion, the two really got into gritty details. I'm already grossed out by animal feces, how much more of it's human feces? The descriptions in this video aren't pleasant to think about. Instead, I had to put away whatever I was eating or drinking when I was watching and listening to this video. Not even the pretty girl's face could ease away my disgust while hearing the disgusting truth that needed to be said!

Some people would blame, "Capitalism did it! We need socialism!" I wonder if the people who said it know why Vietnam has better peace and order as a socialist state? Instead, we need to look at what's tolerated and what's not. It's because the "Don't do this and don't do that." ultimately affects how most people will behave. This article from the Washington Examiner gives this gritty detail:
And yet, the homelessness and drug addiction problems in San Francisco are worse than just about any other city in the country. That would require you to believe that San Francisco, the home of West Coast hippy liberalism (along with Portland, Oregon), is a bastion of capitalism compared to every other city in the country.

Yes, the city that opened a drug center that encouraged addicts to shoot up whenever they like, leading addicts to flock to the area and lounge around outside of businesses while defecating on the sidewalks and threatening residents, is supposedly a bastion of capitalism.

Much like the drug overdoses and the rampant crime, the homelessness is the result of Democratic governance, not capitalism. San Francisco is one of the most restrictive cities in the country when it comes to land use. Strict zoning laws severely limit the building of new housing. That is why what housing exists is so expensive in the city, which leads to the evictions Preston is lamenting.

That isn’t capitalism. For comparison, Houston has no zoning laws and has permitted an average of more than 3,000 new units per month since 2000. San Francisco has permitted an average of just around 950 per month in that same time frame.

San Francisco has shot itself in the foot repeatedly with terrible policies. If anything, the city’s decline has been mitigated by capitalism. People moved to the city to work for prospering businesses, and the benefits of working in industries in San Francisco were able to counterbalance the expenses and dirty streets. The lockdown-fueled decline changed that calculation, with people and businesses deciding to leave.   
Capitalism kept San Francisco afloat, but San Francisco ruined even that by embracing policies such as those supported by Preston. It was Democratic policies that sank San Francisco, and those policies will continue to be the anchor that drags the city down so long as leaders like Preston refuse to reevaluate their failing worldview.

Isn't it amazing that an average citizen YouTuber has more common sense than Dean Preston, the supervisor? How can you expect people in San Francisco to follow simple guidelines when you've got a drug center that encourages drug addiction, rather than discourage it? How can you expect cleanliness when people get addicted and start using the sidewalks as their waste disposal? Are those really what capitalism is about? Seriously? Funny that I hear the same claim from Filipinos quoting Preston, are supposedly anti-American. Hmmm... leaves room for more thought! 

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