You get what you vote for. You wanted progress...you got it! For all you Californians moving to Texas, remember why you left your shit hole state and what contributed to the downfall of a once beautiful Republic.
I remember taking our kids there for a vacation. We were walking down the sidewalk and people were stepping over a person laying there. My kids were really taken back by it as we all were. We stopped and tried to bring the person to consciousness and we were treated horribly by people passing by for stopping to check on the person. We called 911 and a rescue squad came and revived the person that was dying. We have never been back after that experience. How could people become so cold to the life that is around them that is dying. They are so concerned with controlling the world outside of San Francisco that they have died to the world they live in.
If there's a silver lining to this, liberal types do not procreate at replacement values. The hope is that many of the woke ideals will be phased out from sheer lack of people.
Used to be my favorite city in the country. What a sad reality it is when policy and lifestyle in a big city squeezes out any room for little people. Well written, Alex.
As a lifer Chicagoan…I think The Windy City is on its heels with their violence problem and mayor who is hell bent on destroying all that is beautiful and hopeful there too.
Last year, here in Melbourne the most locked down city in the world, I was out for a ride during my hour of daily freedom one day last year. Suddenly I almost burst into tears and was not sure why, I then realised I had heard the laughter of the children of essential workers at a local school. After months of trying to keep the spirits of my locked-down kids up and that laughter cut to my core. I always pause at that spot when I go for a ride now to remember that laughter, to remember what they stole from us, the non essential ones.
This is what decades of early sexualization and promotion of constant sex with anyone and everyone does to a community. Before the accusation flies, I’m not talking about gay people. Sexual orientation has nothing to do with early sexualization or endless casual sex. I’m also not talking about college kids experimenting a few times. I’m talking about the gender and sex ideologies that promote focus on the use of genitals for “physical pleasure” from a very young age. I’m talking about promoting the theory that sex is simply an activity for physical pleasure and promoting the fallacy it’s easy to separate emotional relationships from sex.
For decades, far longer than places like NYC, places like San Fransisco and Seattle have been telling kids to experiment with sex in endless casual relationships, to “explore” having multiple partners at once, to get as many abortions as necessary to maintain the lifestyle, and to reject the nuclear family structure that has been most successful for thousands of years across hundreds of cultures around the world.
The woke culture has been around longer than me and has long promoted to have sex with everyone, which may sound fun at 20, but particularly for women, the longer the endless streams of casual sex partners go on, the more damaging it is. A few abortions and being used as a blow up doll a decade or two doesn’t often result in women with stable mental health or committed relationships and children by 40. Certainly very conservative religions often separate from reality the other direction, but at least pro-creation is part of the goal. Reducing the number of babies and functioning families seems to be a major goal of wokeism. It shouldn’t be shocking it’s achieving that goal.
Add to that San Fransisco expensive, many communities more flush with drugs than kids, schools that teach 5 year olds it’s cool to sterilize themselves on the alter of woke fantasies around gender, and no one should be surprised that people who do want children aren’t sticking around San Fransisco that has been damaging kids and discouraging having children for 50 years.
I also live in a state getting slammed by people from blue states. Please, please, please don't ruin our states. Vote for freedom and against taxes, illegal aliens and big government.
I work with a few people that live there. Every time I ask they say it's great! Love living there. But anyone who doesn't live there says it's a living hell just to drive through. What is this strange disconnect?
Businesses are fleeing - PayPal announced they are closing their downtown offices. The circle will close and all of San Francisco will be swallowed in liberal misery
I lived in SF 1973-76. As a gay man, it was a dream. Lots of other gay men going about life and having fun. But after about a year, I realized that it was all a facade. People that could not leave “The City” and it was all too incestuous. I worked in the East Bay, so I had friends outside “The City”. Eventually, it all came to a halt, I had to leave. So I went to Colorado and then to Utah (this was 1976 remember - quite the culture shock from SF). I settled in Salt Lake, got a job and went to Graduate School. One night, coming home from my classes, I found my roommate sitting watching the TV news, and he was watching a report on the “Gay Plague”. The centers for this? SF, NYC, and LA. Since I traveled for my work, I did end up in the Bay Area occasionally. When I was there, I went to my old stomping grounds in the Castro and the Haight, and, they were shadows of their former selves. The point? SF has been dying for years. The digital revolution and the wealth created by Silicon Valley have done an excellent job of hiding this. But eventually, the truth comes out, and it is coming out now in the Bay Area. The people “in power” have the means to avoid the worst of the consequences. The people who really pay for this are the middle class and the poor. And it is not just SF. I have lived in LA for 35 years, and it is becoming a shithole too (for many of the same reasons). It is sad, but the “California Dream” is becoming a nightmare.
In many parts of the North East, the absence of children is heavily felt as well. I have the greatest respect for working moms who manage to juggle everything but I am grateful to be home with my kids while they are little (in no small part because of making do with less house and fewer things and vacations). We have many children in our neighborhood but between childcare and over-scheduling, not to mention all the unwarranted paranoia from child abductions in the 80s and 90s, children aren't playing outside anymore and I don't think it bodes well for the next generation. Happy mine are outside and free to be kids, just be sure to slow down when you get to my end of the street!
I had been going to San Fran frequently since 1993. I went there in 2017. Stayed in the Mission. Place was repulsive. I will never go back. My friends whose place I stayed in on that visit moved to Florida mid-pandemic. Heartbreaking what these inveterate, self-destructive and misguided Elites are doing to our country and the World for that matter.
You get what you vote for. You wanted progress...you got it! For all you Californians moving to Texas, remember why you left your shit hole state and what contributed to the downfall of a once beautiful Republic.
I remember taking our kids there for a vacation. We were walking down the sidewalk and people were stepping over a person laying there. My kids were really taken back by it as we all were. We stopped and tried to bring the person to consciousness and we were treated horribly by people passing by for stopping to check on the person. We called 911 and a rescue squad came and revived the person that was dying. We have never been back after that experience. How could people become so cold to the life that is around them that is dying. They are so concerned with controlling the world outside of San Francisco that they have died to the world they live in.
If there's a silver lining to this, liberal types do not procreate at replacement values. The hope is that many of the woke ideals will be phased out from sheer lack of people.
"No, for whatever reason, the pretty girls and boys here seem particularly unable to pair off and take the final step into adulthood."
um, after seeing one parade, you will figure it out
Used to be my favorite city in the country. What a sad reality it is when policy and lifestyle in a big city squeezes out any room for little people. Well written, Alex.
As a lifer Chicagoan…I think The Windy City is on its heels with their violence problem and mayor who is hell bent on destroying all that is beautiful and hopeful there too.
Last year, here in Melbourne the most locked down city in the world, I was out for a ride during my hour of daily freedom one day last year. Suddenly I almost burst into tears and was not sure why, I then realised I had heard the laughter of the children of essential workers at a local school. After months of trying to keep the spirits of my locked-down kids up and that laughter cut to my core. I always pause at that spot when I go for a ride now to remember that laughter, to remember what they stole from us, the non essential ones.
This is what decades of early sexualization and promotion of constant sex with anyone and everyone does to a community. Before the accusation flies, I’m not talking about gay people. Sexual orientation has nothing to do with early sexualization or endless casual sex. I’m also not talking about college kids experimenting a few times. I’m talking about the gender and sex ideologies that promote focus on the use of genitals for “physical pleasure” from a very young age. I’m talking about promoting the theory that sex is simply an activity for physical pleasure and promoting the fallacy it’s easy to separate emotional relationships from sex.
For decades, far longer than places like NYC, places like San Fransisco and Seattle have been telling kids to experiment with sex in endless casual relationships, to “explore” having multiple partners at once, to get as many abortions as necessary to maintain the lifestyle, and to reject the nuclear family structure that has been most successful for thousands of years across hundreds of cultures around the world.
The woke culture has been around longer than me and has long promoted to have sex with everyone, which may sound fun at 20, but particularly for women, the longer the endless streams of casual sex partners go on, the more damaging it is. A few abortions and being used as a blow up doll a decade or two doesn’t often result in women with stable mental health or committed relationships and children by 40. Certainly very conservative religions often separate from reality the other direction, but at least pro-creation is part of the goal. Reducing the number of babies and functioning families seems to be a major goal of wokeism. It shouldn’t be shocking it’s achieving that goal.
Add to that San Fransisco expensive, many communities more flush with drugs than kids, schools that teach 5 year olds it’s cool to sterilize themselves on the alter of woke fantasies around gender, and no one should be surprised that people who do want children aren’t sticking around San Fransisco that has been damaging kids and discouraging having children for 50 years.
I also live in a state getting slammed by people from blue states. Please, please, please don't ruin our states. Vote for freedom and against taxes, illegal aliens and big government.
I work with a few people that live there. Every time I ask they say it's great! Love living there. But anyone who doesn't live there says it's a living hell just to drive through. What is this strange disconnect?
Businesses are fleeing - PayPal announced they are closing their downtown offices. The circle will close and all of San Francisco will be swallowed in liberal misery
https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/27/paypal-shuttering-its-san-francisco-office/
I lived in SF 1973-76. As a gay man, it was a dream. Lots of other gay men going about life and having fun. But after about a year, I realized that it was all a facade. People that could not leave “The City” and it was all too incestuous. I worked in the East Bay, so I had friends outside “The City”. Eventually, it all came to a halt, I had to leave. So I went to Colorado and then to Utah (this was 1976 remember - quite the culture shock from SF). I settled in Salt Lake, got a job and went to Graduate School. One night, coming home from my classes, I found my roommate sitting watching the TV news, and he was watching a report on the “Gay Plague”. The centers for this? SF, NYC, and LA. Since I traveled for my work, I did end up in the Bay Area occasionally. When I was there, I went to my old stomping grounds in the Castro and the Haight, and, they were shadows of their former selves. The point? SF has been dying for years. The digital revolution and the wealth created by Silicon Valley have done an excellent job of hiding this. But eventually, the truth comes out, and it is coming out now in the Bay Area. The people “in power” have the means to avoid the worst of the consequences. The people who really pay for this are the middle class and the poor. And it is not just SF. I have lived in LA for 35 years, and it is becoming a shithole too (for many of the same reasons). It is sad, but the “California Dream” is becoming a nightmare.
In many parts of the North East, the absence of children is heavily felt as well. I have the greatest respect for working moms who manage to juggle everything but I am grateful to be home with my kids while they are little (in no small part because of making do with less house and fewer things and vacations). We have many children in our neighborhood but between childcare and over-scheduling, not to mention all the unwarranted paranoia from child abductions in the 80s and 90s, children aren't playing outside anymore and I don't think it bodes well for the next generation. Happy mine are outside and free to be kids, just be sure to slow down when you get to my end of the street!
Well written, wow.
Good luck today Alex!! We are all rooting for you! ❤️
I had been going to San Fran frequently since 1993. I went there in 2017. Stayed in the Mission. Place was repulsive. I will never go back. My friends whose place I stayed in on that visit moved to Florida mid-pandemic. Heartbreaking what these inveterate, self-destructive and misguided Elites are doing to our country and the World for that matter.
By 2030, you'll be homeless and eating worms to survive....assuming you survive the clot shots.