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Why Progressives Ruin Cities

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San Fransicko

Auteur(s): Michael Shellenberger
Narrateur(s): Jonathan Todd Ross
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National best-selling author of Apocalypse Never skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities.

Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.

Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 30 years. During that time, he advocated for the decriminalization of drugs, affordable housing, and alternatives to jail and prison. But as homeless encampments spread, and overdose deaths skyrocketed, Shellenberger decided to take a closer look at the problem.

What he discovered shocked him. The problems had grown worse not despite but because of progressive policies. San Francisco and other West Coast cities - Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland - had gone beyond merely tolerating homelessness, drug dealing, and crime to actively enabling them.

San Fransicko reveals that the underlying problem isn’t a lack of housing or money for social programs. The real problem is an ideology that designates some people, by identity or experience, as victims entitled to destructive behaviors. The result is an undermining of the values that make cities, and civilization itself, possible.

©2021 Michael Shellenberger (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers L’itinérance Politique Sociologie Économie Justice sociale
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For the past 5 years, it has become evident that letting drug addicts "live their truth" has not worked and has made many cities in the West unlivable without addressing the growing problem of addiction, open air drug markets and allowing people to defecate and urinate on streets with no consequences. Unlike other commentators who complain, Michael Shellenberger also clarifies solutions to a libertarian utopian social justice approach that hasn't worked but also has made things worse for those who suffer as well as the general population.

Balanced insight into failed harm reduction.

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Very informative, lots of information stuffed into one book. If you are naive on the homeless issues plaguing many cities, this is your best bet for unbiased opinions on how to solve it.

Great listen

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Anyone who has a loved one who is experiencing or has died from serious overdose needs to read this book so that they can stop feeling gas lit by people telling us that more access to drugs is the answer to our loved one’s semi-suicidal behaviour. Schellenberger lays out precisely why more access to all drugs is the opposite of how we will rescue or dying or dead children. My adopted country of Canada is going heading in a reckless direction to legalize all illicit substances, ostensibly in the name of compassion for those experiencing addiction. It is brutally shortsighted. It is a radical version of libertarianism wearing the clothes of a Mother Theresa. Schellenberger calls these homelessness and addiction activists- often anarchists- ‘pathological altruists”; that is harsh, but has more than a kernal of truth. I hope that others, especially politicians and those working in the fields of psychology, addiction, community development, etc. will read this and realize that Schellenberger is correct in saying we are watching society‘s downfall if we continue on these shortterm feel -good measures that make things worse in the long run for those most vulnerable and their families friends and communities. For those who wish to know more on the voices resisting legalizing all illicit drugs, please read the work of Julian Somers, Lynette Reib, and Vincent Lam in Ontario Canada. They are among the few brave voices in the wilderness urging more compassionate and sensible drug policies that are intimately intertwined with our homelessness challenges in North America. The time has come, as Schellenberger says, and many who are willing to stay this publicly (and most who are not), for some type of mandatory institutionalization and treatment for those experiencing extreme and chronic mental illness and addiction. Effective and humane treatment does not need to look at all like asylums of the past, nor like the prisons and tent cities that currently house our mentally ill and addicted. Facebook, with a shred of interest in these topics, it is absolutely imperative reading.

Babies, bathwater, hell, and good intentions

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well done book! Adding clarity and information on what we have and continue to do wrong with our addiction epidemic.

a must to add to your library

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Feels like it drags in back half but its message and meanings are clear and worth hearing.

Knowledge Dense

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Within 30secs of the intro I envisioned my mid size Canadian city that is crumbling under the pressures of homelessness, drug abuse and criminal violence.

Within 3 chapters I realized all there iniatives were test driven in Californi and unless it's stop we'll suffer same fate.

it isn't a bug of the system it's a feature

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Every city council needs to read this to deal with their mental health issues

revolutionary for North American issues

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Incredible in depth research. Well presented and very thought provoking. I certainly have a more educated opinion on what can be done to combat the challenges of drug addiction, mental illness and housing in my city and others facing a negative decline.

A must read for anyone that wants to understand these challenges

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The picture Shellenberger paints of the mentally ill and drug addicted is pretty accurate. I live in Vancouver and I work for a company that has some contracts cleaning buildings on the lower East side. I see examples of these policies and their results almost everyday. I always heard that 'they' closed the mental hospitals and treatment centers but I always wanted to know who and why. This book lays out a logical course of events and identifes blind spots in ideology that at least needs some more looking into. It's a sobering look at how our tax dollars are spent and how these problems seem to always follow progressive cities around.

Sobering Read.

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shellenberger does a great job of explaining the (misplaced) WHY? behind the insanity. much is exolained

educational but entertaining

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