{"id":2013113,"date":"2023-08-26T14:47:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T18:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-franciscos-homeless-part-iii\/"},"modified":"2023-08-26T14:51:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T18:51:45","slug":"san-franciscos-homeless-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-franciscos-homeless-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Homeless, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsan-franciscos-homeless-part-iii%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2013113&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Commentary<\/h2>\n<p><em>Continued from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/opinion\/san-franciscos-homeless-part-ii-5451681\">Part II<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>San\u2064 Francisco homelessness is postmodernism <em>par excellence<\/em>\u2014cultural relativity \u200din which no one\u200d judges another and certainly\u200d no one orders anyone to be treated in a mental\u200d hospital or placed under conservatorship against their will.<\/p>\n<p>Still, in the article \u201cSan Francisco\u2019s Homeless,\u201d Parts I and II, I suggested that cities have a right \u200cto create\u200b laws, if only \u200bfor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-official-denied-entry-into-tv-studio-for-interview-told-hes-on-a-list-of-people-they-wont-allow-in\/\" title=\"Trump Campaign Official Denied Entry into TV Studio for Interview \u2014 Told He\u2019s On a \u201cList of People They Won\u2019t Allow In\u201d\">health reasons<\/a>, that no one may live on the \u200dsidewalk\u2014eat, sleep, urinate, defecate, pitch a tent, indulge addictions.<\/p>\n<p>If a city feels guilty about such a\u200b law, let citizens tax themselves (property\u200d tax, sales\u2064 tax) and pay for what\u2019s\u2062 required: \u2063food, clothing, shelter,\u2063 medical care. Offer those services, but not all in \u2062one neighborhood; spread the \u200dhomeless into residences and community centers throughout the Bay Area.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related\u2064 Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/california-mayors-ask-for-1-5-billion-to-help-homeless-suffering-from-mental-health-issues-5481065\">California Mayors Ask for\u2064 $1.5 Billion to Help Homeless Suffering From Mental Health Issues<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/25\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/driver-pleads-guilty-in-homeless-womans-death-in-san-diego-5480373\">Driver Pleads Guilty in Homeless Woman&#8217;s\u200b Death in San Diego<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/24\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-franciscos-homeless-part-iii\/\" title=\"SF Homeless, Part III\">unsheltered person refuses treatment<\/a>, move him or her\u200c to the outskirts of town\u2014to a vacant warehouse, surplus office building, or decommissioned military base. Provide services there. That would move \u2064the majority of \u2064drug dealers out of town. Two birds, \u2063one stone.<\/p>\n<p>What \u2064about \u2063new housing? \u2064In a market economy, housing is built for those willing to pay. It is not something given away.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u2062 market economy, where the rich and \u2064poor\u2063 pay almost no taxes, it\u2019s not fair to \u2062ask the middle\u200d class to foot \u200dthe entire bill, to pay $430,000 a unit for housing they themselves cannot\u2064 afford.<\/p>\n<p>How does San \u200bFrancisco get away \u2063with spending $1 billion on an estimated\u2063 8,000 homeless people? District elections of \u200bthe Board of Supervisors.<\/p>\n<p>In San Francisco, progressive candidates need only 35,000 gerrymandered votes in an electorate of 500,000 to win a board seat, control the municipal government, and \u200cgive away money. That is not democracy.<\/p>\n<p>What is the root of San Francisco progressivism?<\/p>\n<p>France. Jean Jacques Rousseau \u2062led\u2062 France to understand itself\u200b as a shared collective, a fraternity\u2014that outright\u200d rejects British and American classical liberalism, the \u200bnotion that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/radical-cultural-change-coming-to-america\/\" title=\"Radical Cultural Change Coming to America?\">free markets<\/a> (the invisible hand of nature) organize society better \u200dthan anything man can do by design.<\/p>\n<p>To the French, the very definition of civilization is that man prevents forces\u2063 of nature from controlling human life,\u2062 prevents capital markets from undermining culture, equality, and fraternity. The French could never live in an unregulated economy.<\/p>\n<p>Compare a\u2062 French garden, hedges precision-trimmed to resemble poodle dogs (Versailles), to an English garden that\u200d appears to have absolutely no planning.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the culture of France is culture, not business or democracy. Over\u2062 France\u2019s long history of warfare, internal \u200cespionage, privileged aristocracy, and unsustained democracy, the individual, crushed, had nowhere\u2063 to go\u2014until\u2064 the discovery of the New World. Finally, Europeans could stop focusing exclusively on culture\u2014on food, fashion, music, art, and philosophy \u200d(at a level few Americans can appreciate)\u2014because\u2062 there was opportunity elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Worldwide for the last 250 years, immigrants have \u200cnot \u200cstopped \u2064coming to\u2062 America to better their lives (and their children\u2019s). They mostly do \u200bit to earn money,\u2062 although eventually they realize why the opportunity is here: America upholds social, political, and economic freedom. That is \u200cwhat attracts independent, responsible, adventurous, self-motivated, entrepreneurial people, an entire society\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n<p>In 1933, those freedoms were reduced as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt imposed Leviathan,\u200c huge government, on the lives of all U.S. citizens, pushing the nation down \u200bthe road to socialism to accomplish what\u200c politics in France achieves\u2014economic equality.<\/p>\n<p>However, to achieve socialism, even European \u200dsocialism, a nation must \u200cuse force. At a minimum, high taxation.<\/p>\n<p>In other\u2062 words, to reverse the New Deal, to reverse what the U.S. has\u2064 become (an indebted oxymoron: freedom\u200d <em>with<\/em> government), force will again be necessary\u2014to bring \u200dthe U.S. back \u2063to what the \u200bFounding Fathers gave us: \u2064freedom <em>from<\/em> government.<\/p>\n<p>Such a paradox: in the name of liberty, using force to create equality. \u200bFor the Left, it starts with the nation\u2019s public schools, where\u2064 children are indoctrinated with socialist ideas\u2014as\u200c in France, where teachers in their Ecoles Normales (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-engineers-hit-campaign-from-secret-recording-of-hillsdale-college-president-telling-the-truth-about-teacher-training\/\" title=\"Media Engineers Hit Campaign From Secret Recording Of Hillsdale College President Telling The Truth About Teacher Training\">teacher colleges<\/a>) are persuaded to join the\u2063 communist \u2064party and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-public-schools-use-black-lives-matter-curricula-to-teach-black-history-month\/\" title=\"D.C. Public Schools Use Black Lives Matter Curricula To Teach Black History Month\">teach students<\/a> why Marxism is the best alternative to capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>There, teacher \u200cunions and colleges place front and center all the bad things America\u200c has done\u2014slavery, for example\u2014without mentioning the horrors that have occurred in most other countries, nor the good\u2062 things America has done\u2062 in\u2064 relation to other countries, such as defend Europe in World Wars I and II and then rebuild \u200cEurope.<\/p>\n<p>Not properly taught, American students today have no \u200csense of\u2062 patriotism \u2063or bonding\u2063 with the history and culture of British and American democracy. Rather, \u2063they are taught to reject what their immigrant \u200bparents risked their lives to come\u200c here for: freedom <em>from<\/em> government.<\/p>\n<p>Brainwashed, as are students\u2062 in Russia, China, \u200cand North Korea, American students teach their parents that they are \u2063marginalized victims in a country \u2063that despises them.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, \u201cwoke\u201d American descendants do\u200d not appreciate the superior civilization to which their parents came. They do \u200bnot appreciate that Western civilization (5th century Athens, 1st \u2062century\u2062 Rome, 18th century Age \u2062of Enlightenment) is not simply one cultural\u2062 approach, but an evolutionary step forward for humankind\u2014a step that places the individual, not the community or its leaders,\u2062 at the center of society.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dpoorly\u2064 educated \u200cwoke do no<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary continues from Part II. San Francisco&#8217;s homelessness embodies cultural relativity, where no judgments are made and no one is forced into mental hospitals or conservatorship. However, as discussed in &#8220;San Francisco&#8217;s Homeless,&#8221; cities should have the authority to address this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2347,"featured_media":2013114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}