I disagree completely. I'm seeing a common thread among all of these neo-progressive efforts. They defy reality and have a feeling of insidiousness to them. They are hurting the people that they purport to want to help, and they are all destroying the communities that implement them.
SF is a perfect example, because there has been decades of left wing politics in charge and there's no Republican boogeyman to blame. And it's been nothing but failure and failure, and things are getting worse and worse.
Education is the thing that really makes me the most angry, because the fact that 50% of Black and Brown students are "graduating" from high school barely able to read [1] is 100% the fault of the progressives. They claim to care about equity, yet all they are producing is generations of students unable to compete in the real world. Lowell is/was a top 100 high school in the US, and the progressives gutted the admissions because too many Asians got in, so they changed it to a lottery system. All that did was admit kids who were unprepared and flunked classes. The number of flunks classes tripled in a single year after merit-based admissions was cut [2].
All of these things are related. The progressive policies since the 60s have produced fantastic policies that are important for freedom. Gays and trans deserve the right to live in safety and be treated like everyone else. Drug addicts should not be criminalized, they are addicts that need help. Mental health problems should not be stigmatized. Racism against any group should never be tolerated. Lower-income neighborhoods need to be lifted up, and yes at the expense of richer neighborhoods.
But the policies we are seeing these days go too far and are damaging the people that they purport to help.
SF is a perfect example, because there has been decades of left wing politics in charge and there's no Republican boogeyman to blame. And it's been nothing but failure and failure, and things are getting worse and worse.
Education is the thing that really makes me the most angry, because the fact that 50% of Black and Brown students are "graduating" from high school barely able to read [1] is 100% the fault of the progressives. They claim to care about equity, yet all they are producing is generations of students unable to compete in the real world. Lowell is/was a top 100 high school in the US, and the progressives gutted the admissions because too many Asians got in, so they changed it to a lottery system. All that did was admit kids who were unprepared and flunked classes. The number of flunks classes tripled in a single year after merit-based admissions was cut [2].
All of these things are related. The progressive policies since the 60s have produced fantastic policies that are important for freedom. Gays and trans deserve the right to live in safety and be treated like everyone else. Drug addicts should not be criminalized, they are addicts that need help. Mental health problems should not be stigmatized. Racism against any group should never be tolerated. Lower-income neighborhoods need to be lifted up, and yes at the expense of richer neighborhoods.
But the policies we are seeing these days go too far and are damaging the people that they purport to help.
[1] https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/half-of-black-students-c... [2] https://www.yahoo.com/video/top-sf-high-school-sees-19230360...