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She is one of the most powerful people in the country or even world. She has a lot of influence that could fix this...yet that does not happen.

If you are as "up there" as Pelosi and you still have no ability to change the district you run for election out of, who does?




So is the Pope, who also does not set policy in the municipality of San Francisco. To reply to your question: the mayor and city council (which is a group of humans, a species which is famously given to disagreement between individual members) of San Francisco have some power to improve the situation, but even they have precious few examples of cities to have attracted and generated tremendous wealth without also having tremendous poverty and depravity, frequently sited literally across the street from said wealth. What US cities have done so humanely?


> but even they have precious few examples of cities to have attracted and generated tremendous wealth without also having tremendous poverty and depravity

Have you considered the possibility that the poverty is a consequence of the wealth?


SF voters don't get to vote for or against the Pope.


A dude in Menlo Park did, IMO that's close enough


That makes no sense.




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