San Francisco Democrat Blames Capitalism for Homeless Crisis, Says Arresting Drug Addicts is Counterproductive

Elvis Dunderhoff December 12, 2023

If anything, we need more drug addicts on the streets.

Cleaning drug addicts from the streets is what Putin and Trump would want us to do.

We can’t let them win.

New York Post:

San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston claimed the city’s homelessness problems were “absolutely the result of capitalism,” and it was “counterproductive” to arrest people openly doing drugs.

Preston’s District 5 includes the Tenderloin District, an area known for its open-air drug market. Nearly half of the city’s homeless population lived in this district in 2022, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

The Democratic Socialist supervisor argued his district was particularly affected by homelessness because of the country’s economic structure.

Supervisor Dean Preston

“I think what you’re seeing in the Tenderloin is absolutely the result of capitalism and what happens in capitalism to the people at the bottom rungs,” the local leader reportedly remarked in a new documentary by the UK outlet, UnHerd.

“The biggest driver of why folks are on the street is because they lost their jobs, income or were evicted from their homes, usually for not being able to pay the rent. So you have major landlords literally causing folks to lose their homes, and real estate speculation making it impossible for folks to find an affordable place to live,” he reportedly said in the interview.

Preston disagreed with the city’s “inconsistent” approach to arresting drug users and sweeping homeless encampments, arguing this was “completely counterproductive” and made things worse.

This method “has not made our city any safer. It’s actually made it less safe. It increases overdoses,” he claimed.

The city leader downplayed concerns by many local residents and business owners about the encampments and rampant drug-dealing in the area.

“I don’t think every instance of poverty or addiction or behavioral health issue is a safety threat to someone walking by. I mean, there’s a lot of people who are doing things that are very harmful to themselves on the streets, who aren’t necessarily a safety threat,” Preston remarked.

Just to be clear… there are discussions you can have about leftist economic policy, and the idea that the current system is totally unregulated allows random individuals (who could be any ethnicity, really) on Wall Street to suck the blood of the American workers.

Like, there are several conversations there. I don’t think “we should abolish the free market” is a serious discussion, but it’s a discussion you could have.

However: not one of these discussions would ever overlap with drug addiction and this ongoing “crisis” (fake crisis) of all of these people on the streets. That has no relationship at all to economics, and any of these people could be living in public housing if they wanted to. All they would have to do is fill out a form.

They don’t want to. They like living on the street, because it doesn’t require any responsibility, and when you’re deep into hard drugs like this, all you want to do is the drugs.

With the drugs question, we need to point out that every medicine cabinet in America had a bottle of heroin in it 100 years ago, and we didn’t have any junkies. We had a lot more “capitalism” back then than we do now, too.

So these conversations are all just retarded and nonsensical. No one who isn’t totally censored into oblivion is interested in having a serious, adult discussion about any topic.

For the record: drug addiction is a social problem.

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