Theory: Community policing works! Reality: There are criminals often with guns who rob stores, assault people, steal cars and sell drugs. Those things require force in that moment to be dealt with.

Theory: We should let people use drugs safely! Reality: Safe Injection Sites don't often lead to recovery unless the person using specifically asks. Recovery or treatment is not usually talked about as it's viewed as stigmatizing.

Theory: Housing solves homelessness! Reality: It can. But, San Francisco is under mandate build 82,000 homes by 2031 and even @AaronPeskin who theorizes with the best of them is only promising 5,000 homes in his campaign for mayor.

Theory: Shelter doesn't solve homelessness Reality: San Francisco has 8,000 unsheltered homeless and Peskin is proposing 5,000 homes and 2,000 shelter beds in 4 years. What about people in low income housing trying to move up the ladder to better housing? And where do the…

Theory: From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! Reality: There's an existing country in between the river and the sea called Israel populated by another minority group.

The point is this: communism, socialism and libertarianism share the same issue.- they are nice theories that only exist in fantasy. It's as if these ideologues sit around at the dinner table over wine and come up with these ideas. Prop I comes to mind.

There's an entire set in San Francisco of radical ideologues who are driving policy. Peskin is one of them. Dean Preston and Jackie Fielder and many others, where it's as if they are constantly at a rally in their heads- rather than in reality.

The struggle in San Francisco is very real. We have an empty downtown, 800 OD deaths per year, 8,000 homeless and widespread corruption in government and some large non-profits that contract with them. Theory has become the status quo.

San Francisco is not a junior high school chemistry set for you to experiment on. There's 800k people living here who expect at least the basics. Clean streets, criminals to be held accountable, homeless to be sheltered and an economy that works for everyone.

Let's live in reality for awhile. Leave theories where they belong. In your head. @garrytan @elonmusk @balajis

@adampnathan I don’t agree with much of what you said, but the city is corrupt in general. How about starting with that? Ie some Elliot Ness style cleanup- agnostic of whether its for this program or that program: across the board. When that dust settles, the rest will be much less fraught.

@apocalypsurfer That's a blanket statement and a blanket solution. I've written extensively about dysfunction and corruption and where there are obvious opportunities to start. There are still many dedicated public servants doing good work in our govt.

@adampnathan Reality: The progressives haven't been in power since the 80s.

@rgcapozzi Lol we have a weak mayor city where our Board of Supervisors (who must approve almost everything the Mayor can do) has had a progressive supermajority until last year. Get your facts straight.

@adampnathan 💯Correct! The implementation of what sounds great in the bubble of academia or imagined utopia vs REALITY!

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@adampnathan My political affiliation: whatever actually solves problems. If it’s not working I don’t believe in it. If it’s working I want to try it too.

@adampnathan Not a "gotcha", but a real hypothetical I hope honest moderates will at least ask themselves privately. Faced with San Francisco's current housing crisis, what would Ronald Reagan prescribe? This is why so many of us think of the term "moderate" as disingenuous.

@adampnathan You can vote for what sounds good, or for what works. It’s past time SF chooses the latter.

@adampnathan You all picked the mayor