A lot of powerful people have tried to keep what I have to say out of polite society, but my talk last night at San Francisco's venerable, 130-year old Commonwealth Club shows they failed.
I am grateful to the Club for the opportunity to say my piece:
I am grateful to the Club for the opportunity to say my piece:
Correction: 119-year old. 😅
City workers and others on the front lines are suffering. They are waking up to the ugly reality that many city leaders care more about ideological purity than they do about workers, residents, and citizens.
https://twitter.com/MsDoreenReads/status/1486094723496374272?s=20
Legitimacy is everything. You don't need Max Weber to understand that. When people lose faith in their leaders, governments fall, and quickly.
San Francisco's leaders including @LondonBreed did NOT get public consent to operate an illegal, city-sanctioned, supervised drug dealing & use site in the middle of United Nations Plaza. They neither requested nor earned legitimacy for such a radical experiment.
Maybe the people of San Francisco would rather the publicly-owned United Nations Plaza be used as a playground or farmers' market rather than as a supervised drug dealing site ultimately controlled by a murderously violent foreign drug cartel?
Things are changing rapidly. I was delighted to appear on "Young Turks" with @AnaKasparian
It was my first invitation to speak on a progressive TV show in... well, gosh, I don't know how long. Years.
It was my first invitation to speak on a progressive TV show in... well, gosh, I don't know how long. Years.
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