[sagarm]

It's up to Republicans to find a way to appeal to San Franciscans.

The bottom line is that they're deeply out of step with the city on culture war issues they themselves whipped up. Forcing women to give birth to corpses, legalizing discrimination based on sexual orientation, opposing all pandemic mitigations, etc. Even if an individual politician doesn't support these positions,they define the brand.

[amitkgupta84]

I think the problem is San Franciscans are out of touch with reality. The root problem is not the GOP brand; despite the flaws in the GOP brand that is not the bottom line.

[zepto]

Both can be true. Even if there are many San Franciscans who are out of touch with reality, the GOP is not providing a good option for those who aren’t.

[amitkgupta84]

Both problems may be present, but I think one of them is the bottom line/root cause. It’s a numbers game. I don’t think there are enough who are in touch with reality to influence election results.

[zepto]

Perhaps not in a single election, but over time they would.

[amitkgupta84]

Yeah, it's a matter of whether you want to address problems proactively (nip them in the bud), or reactively after you have a crisis on your hands. If you live in reality, you can see problems and growing trends, and take action (or at least demand of politicians) to do something about it. People SF instead are so deeply mired in a cult-like ideology that they'd rather stick their head in the sand for a very long time denying there's a problem, in fact castigating anyone who points out there's a problem, and instead vote for people who will further an agenda while exacerbating the problem. Read some of the comments on Breed's Medium post: https://londonbreed.medium.com/a-safer-san-francisco-eb40d9d.... You can't help people who won't help themselves.

[sagarm]

Telling San Franciscans they're out of touch with reality probably won't convince them to vote for Republicans, but you do you.