“Progressive Paradise”

This is what real progressive thought is, and brilliantly expressed here by Erica Le Bon. The newly created monster is moral narcissism, and its spirit animal is the chimera of 'empathy'@glukianoff @epkaufm @andrewdoyle_com @JaniceFiamengo @Fox_Claire https://t.co/lTR1yfkiUO

— Sean Bw Parker (@seanbwparker) February 19, 2024

There have been murmurs for at least the last ten years about the potential for civil war in the United States.  Polls have shown that roughly half the country believes that future conflict is likely.  The intrusion of unchecked government power into every crevice of our private lives has transformed politics into a high-stakes cage match in which furious citizens fight to survive.  Because government exerts so much control over citizens, winning control of government has become an existential imperative.  Such zero-sum thinking has fractured society and pitted Americans against one another.

The recent announcement that Ian Jacobs, a scion of the famous Toronto-based Reichmann real estate clan, was coming to buy upwards of $900 million of San Francisco real estate, has offered the beleaguered California city a rare moment of hope. Some suggest that we could see a repeat of New York’s recovery from its nadir in the 1970s, during which the Reichmanns made a fortune gobbling up depressed buildings shortly before the city’s resurgence.   

Hell of a bet given the state is woke crazy.

Oakland, California, is ceding control of its local commerce to criminals, due to a Soros-backed prosecutor and chronic short staffing at the Oakland PD, which cannot recruit enough new cops to replace retirements and resignations — despite six-figure starting salaries. There’s more going on than that, though. The departure of two prominent restaurant chains from the city reveals a horrifying pattern that the national media entirely miss.

San Francisco’s oldest toy store, which inspired the Pixar classic “Toy Story,” is permanently shutting its doors after nearly a century in business with the city’s widespread crime and violence problem playing a significant factor.

Jeffrey’s Toys broke the news Friday it will be closing up shop at the end of February, marking the end of an iconic 86-year run.

In-N-Out Burger’s only location in Oakland is closing after the cherished fast-food joint decided it could no longer risk the safety of fed-up workers and patrons in the city plagued by recent crime.

The location will shut its doors in March — despite the burger spot turning a profit — because of the constant crime in the community, In-N-Out Chief Operating Officer Denny Warnick said in a sudden announcement over the weekend.

In-n-Out Burger dumps Democrat infested Oakland.

“Our Customers and Associates are regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft and armed robberies,” the company said.

Thank you, Gavin Newsom, for degrading a once lovely California city yet again. pic.twitter.com/oIVfkUz4Co

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 22, 2024

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson responded to a question on an uptick in most violent crime categories in the city in 2023 by stating that homicides and shootings have fallen and money “for restoration and reparations” will help address the “cycle of violence” in the city.

Knife crime in London is rising at its fastest rate in five years with more than 40 incidents reported to the police every day, the Telegraph can disclose.

Warfare between rival drug gangs combined with spiralling street robbery rates are contributing to the surge in violent offences.

Gun crime in the capital is also on the increase with shootings up more than six per cent on the same period in 2022.

Is sanity finally returning to America’s blue cities? The places that incubated inept policies such as “defund the police” and “sanctuary cities”, but welcomed open-air drug use, are beginning to have second thoughts. In Seattle, Portland and San Francisco (which featured in a recent UnHerd special), lawmakers are looking at ways to curb public drug use — a move that has been symptomatic of a wider pushback against progressive policies.

Sickening videos have been released of a series of hit-and-run incidents in which a deranged driver deliberately runs over pedestrians on the streets of Seattle, while the occupants of the car can be heard laughing in the background.

Footage has been released by the Seattle Police Department that shows two separate incidents occurring within a few blocks of one another.

Video shot by surveillance cameras matches that shot from within the vehicle itself, filmed on a cellphone and later posted to social media.

They call it ‘The Poopie Dance’ and San Franciscans are having to learn it – and quickly.

It involves constantly looking straight ahead to find a clean line between where you are on the street and where you want to go.

Sadly, it’s the reality in parts of the Bay City as the growing homeless population have taken to using the famed streets of San Francisco as one giant open-air toilet.