Opinion: Why San Francisco is more conservative than you think, part 4 - The San Francisco Examiner

Since the 2000s, the financial resources of tech companies have grown immense and the electorate increasingly has been made up of people who came to S.F. because of those companies.

The second reason is less obvious, but also very important. The business community is much stronger now than it was for much of the 20th century. These factors help explain why 21st-century San Francisco has moved rightward in so many ways. Conservative interests in the 1960, 1970s and 1980s could always outspend progressives, but the scale was different. There were very few people with the money that today’s tech entrepreneurs use to influence outcomes of extremely local races. Nor were there global businesses who could use the constant and implicit threat of leaving town to get what they wanted from city government.

In recent years, we have also seen a new generation of political infrastructure develop around this more moderate vision for San Francisco. Organizations like Grow SF, while not right-wing, have taken the more conservative position, in a San Francisco context, on everything from the local recalls to making The City more business friendly. This constituency also supports things like a car-free JFK Drive and closing the Great Highway to traffic.

Third paragraph reveals author's real grievance: it's that now SF has more people from around the world who came here to build a life for themselves, not just edgy white suburban kids from all over the US living on their parents' money.

Tech money? Is that how Soros made his millions?

Bravo Sierra.

progressives have failed our city. time to course correct and elect common sense moderates.

SF downtown, especially the Tenderloin, has long been a cess pool. Get real.

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