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San Francisco’s Outposts of Dictatorship, and What You Can Do if You Live in One
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| Contributor | Hikikomori Blitzkrieg! |
| Last Edited | Hikikomori Blitzkrieg! Oct 19, 2010 07:03pm |
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| Author | Greg Kamin |
| News Date | Monday, October 18, 2010 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It’s been four days now since my settlement, and no one has firebombed my home yet. I don’t expect them to, because it would hurt their precious property values, so I think I’ll be OK in that regard. But let me back up and start from the beginning…
I love this city. I love it for many reasons, not the least of which is that people participate in civic life to a degree to which you don’t find in many large cities. And yes, it’s a progressive city, like I am. But it’s not even about that. At some level, it’s less important which candidates or ballot initiatives you support, than the sheer fact that you take the time to become informed about the political process, and express yourself as a participant. And we do. We protest, we fill up City Hall during Board of Supervisors meetings, we have mountains of political mail coming from more political clubs than the rest of California combined, we volunteer for campaigns, and everybody and their mother seems to have a campaign sign in their window around election time telling their neighbors how they think they should vote.
I’m no exception. So this year, I did what I have always done in every election since I moved to San Francisco. In late September I put up a couple of campaign signs in my windows -one for Michael Nava for Judge, and one for No on Sit/Lie (Prop L), two races which may be close and probably can use the attention. I admit I did it with a little bit of trepidation, because what is unusual in this condo complex where I moved to last year (as a tenant), is that unlike the rest of the city, no one here seems to do that. I’ve often wondered what kinds of people live in these squeaky clean condo complexes behind the locked gates and the bland walls where every unit looks the same. Do they care about the larger community in which they live? Or do they just drive their BMWs into their garages, lock the gates behind them, and watch TV, doing their best to lock themselves away in their own sh |
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