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Yeah, I wish someone would explain how a city with perhaps the biggest concentration of wealth inequality in the world, fueled by nearly-unfettered speculative venture capital gambling on unethical tech companies, is a "progressive utopia."

These headlines are clickbait. I wish The Atlantic was better than this, but I know it's not.

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Only 12% of voters vote for the right wing party in SF. How much more one-sided to the left could a place get?

You're claiming that because most people vote Democrat, it must be a progressive utopia?

The Democrat party is barely a left-leaning party. You have famous national examples like AOC and Bernie who are very progressive, but by and large, most Democrats are happy to accede to corporate power and regressive policies when it actually matters. What is considered "radical left" here in America is basically centrist by the standards of the rest of the world.

Progressive and not right wing are not the same thing.

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