San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities - Michael Shellenberger
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National best-selling author of ‘Apocalypse Never’ skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities.
Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime.
But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.
Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 30 years.
During that time, he advocated for the decriminalization of drugs, affordable housing, and alternatives to jail and prison.
But as homeless encampments spread, and overdose deaths skyrocketed, Shellenberger decided to take a closer look at the problem.
What he discovered shocked him.
The problems had grown worse not despite but because of progressive policies.
San Francisco and other West Coast cities — Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland — had gone beyond merely tolerating homelessness, drug dealing, and crime to actively enabling them.
‘San Fransicko’ reveals that the underlying problem isn’t a lack of housing or money for social programs.
The real problem is an ideology that designates some people, by identity or experience, as victims entitled to destructive behaviors.
The result is an undermining of the values that make cities, and civilization itself, possible.
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| 01 Opening Credits.mp3 219.64 KBs | |
| 02 Epigraph.mp3 170.13 KBs | |
| 03 Introduction.mp3 4.9 MBs | |
| 04 (01) “I Just Want to Clean Up the Mess”.mp3 17.06 MBs | |
| 05 (02) Pleasure Island.mp3 10.84 MBs | |
| 06 (03) The Experiment Was a Success but the Patients Died.mp3 11.98 MBs | |
| 07 (04) The War on the War on Drugs.mp3 22.72 MBs | |
| 08 (05) “We Can’t End Overdoses Until We End Poverty and Racism”.mp3 12.83 MBs | |
| 09 (06) Let’s Go Dutch.mp3 11.08 MBs | |
| 10 (07) The Crisis of Untreated Mental Illness.mp3 15.61 MBs | |
| 11 (08) Madness for Decivilization.mp3 8.43 MBs | |
| 12 (09) Medication First.mp3 13.82 MBs | |
| 13 (10) Not Everyone’s a Victim.mp3 19.33 MBs | |
| 14 (11) The Heroism of Recovery.mp3 21.38 MBs | |
| 15 (12) Homicide and Legitimacy.mp3 17.45 MBs | |
| 16 (13) When the Law’s Against the Laws.mp3 10.34 MBs | |
| 17 (14) “Legalize Crime”.mp3 22.59 MBs | |
| 18 (15) It’s Not About the Money.mp3 11.09 MBs | |
| 19 (16) Love Bombing.mp3 22.38 MBs | |
| 20 (17) “It’s a Leadership Problem”.mp3 19.4 MBs | |
| 21 (18) Responsibility First.mp3 20.14 MBs | |
| 22 (19) Civilization’s End.mp3 11.06 MBs | |
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This post has 18 comments with rating of 4.1/5
October 24th, 2021
Funny books truly come here
October 24th, 2021
I’m not sure abt the effects of specific polices, but I recall from a few yrs back when we were on holiday there being truly shocked at the level of homelessness we saw (& no, Eur isn’t perfect in this regard). My impression of the city prior to the visit was that it was resource wealthy & on top of such issues.
My brother lives there for yrs & when I mentioned it he said that yeah, but it’d become fairly invisible to himself & his peers. When the homeless people approached you for money, they seemed like nice “together” people (here, unfortunate homeless people are often suffering from serious mental illness & substance abuse). They would be very specific abt the amount of cash which would help them out, which seemed like a prudent tactic.
October 24th, 2021
Wow! thanks so much. I was originally ‘put off’ by the snarky, fox-news sounding title. But that’s not what it is. It’s a very serious, carefully argued analysis of the intertwined current policies on homelessness (give homes to everybody), drugs (make drugs legal and ok to shoot up in public), crime (legalize shoplifting) etc… and how those policies work out in the real world.
There is one law nobody can cahnge: the law of unintended consequences.
October 24th, 2021
For anyone interested, Michael Shellenberger has recently appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast, where they talked for a couple of hours about his book:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5NxzDE5TmviUV8te2eZjMP
October 24th, 2021
I love how the lefties these days don’t even bother with trying to maintain the pretense of having a substantive argument. It’s just straight to the name calling. When your opponent resorts to name calling, you have won the argument.
October 24th, 2021
Said the LWNJ who only wants communists to control cities
October 24th, 2021
thank you alnilam
October 24th, 2021
thank you alnilam
love shellenberger
October 25th, 2021
Poorest state in the US:
1. Mississippi
2. Louisiana
3. Arkansas
4. West Virginia
5. New Mexico
4/5 are Trumptard territories.
Source:
https://usa.inquirer.net/69294/poorest-states-in-the-u-s
typical right-wing tactics: Point out a VERY SPECIFIC target while they are down. Never mind past performance or TRUE reason why they are down(i.e. pandemic) never mind other info like San francisco is still one of the highest economic centers in the US and the world. But hey, propaganda will be listened to by those who already hate, so no biggy.
Most Powerful Cities in the US:
1 New York
2 Chicago
3 Washington, D.C.
4 Boston
5 Los Angeles
6 San Francisco
7 Houston
8 Dallas
9 Philadelphia
10 Miami
source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-05-09/america-s-most-powerful-global-cities
October 25th, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/07/difference-between-red-state-blue-state-homelessness/
But I assume all those factors will be taken into consideration in this book, right?
October 25th, 2021
Written specifically for those who think that neoliberals are somehow “progressive”.
Hayek, Friedman and Thatcher must be laughing at us in hell.
October 25th, 2021
aka “WE NEED REGRESSION, NOT PROGRESSION! and other things old codgers like to say”
October 25th, 2021
*appreciation
October 26th, 2021
Thanks
October 27th, 2021
Yeah, progressives ruin cities. Not gentrification income inequality. It’s trying to help the disadvantaged rather than locking them up or kicking them out that’s the problem.
“Progressive” polices are a reaction to the excesses of unbridled capitalism. After the rich have trashed a city, they move out and blame the mess on those trying to fix it rather then sweeping it under the rug.
November 4th, 2021
Finished listening to it yesterday. Would’ve preferred the author read it himself, but otherwise well presented and easy to consume. Performer mispronounced Jonathan Haidt’s last name as “hate”. Considering taking him down a star. :)
In case you’re wondering about the content and not just judgments based on the cover. It’s not Trump good, SJWs bad. It attempts to be narrowly focused on homelessness. Mostly succeeds.
It’s thesis is that “Give homes to the homeless” is not the one sized fits all solution to helping the unhoused, pretending it is is makes things worse. There need to be multiple actions taken.
Argues for the treatment of mental illnesses and, specifically, addiction as part of a treadmill off the street.
The “How progressives ruin cities” provocation is about how profitable and ideological many of the current groups that purport help the homeless are. Can you ever finish cleaning up the mess, if the mess is what’s feeding your family?
Thanks so much to the uploader!
December 27th, 2021
Please seed this. Having trouble downloading.
April 11th, 2024
high quality audio. appreciate sharing.
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