Don't worry, "a relatively small number of fed up rich people" did as much to fix SF as Soros did to pick your cereal brand. (Nothing is fixed of course)
That's just not true. Our mayor was able to win in part because he is rich, and clearly that has mattered to change the city.
Whether that's good or bad is a different question, but it's very obvious a small number of rich people used their wealth to change the city (and IMO the results have been fantastic so far)
Believing that a rich guy is going to save us is one of the more worrying trends in the American polity. The downward tend of crime has nothing to do with Lurie. That has been going down since the COVID lockdowns, which.. of course it was. The data lays this out clearly. It's not even clear that Brooke Jenkins has had that much of an effect. Turns out the COVID lockdowns and BLM unrest were generational events that raised crime and after them society pretty much went back to normal.
Lurie has been trying to do his version of a crackdown. Mission Local has covered it thoroughly -- he's accomplished very little in reality, because actually, these problems are difficult to solve:
https://missionlocal.org/2025/04/tracking-sf-mayor-luries-fi...
How do you explain the 9 year delay from 2015 to 2024.
And to be clear I am not even claiming that Lurie alone has caused crime to go down. I am claiming that a small number of rich people have, including all of their actions prior to 2025. What is the alternative explanation? What changed in 2024 under your theory?
Who is us? The answer to that question is who will actually do the saving. Not the trust fund kids or the "middle class", which unfortunately means little in 2025.
This makes me so happy. It was heartbreaking to see SF lose the plot the last 10 or so years.