The State of the Democratic Party

Where we have San Francisco’s Mayor philandering with someone else's wife?

Where our choices for President are being way over-hyped?

And where Blind Date is still the best thing on television during the day?

With February 1st arriving today, I've been spending my lunch hours walking around little Saigon in the TL. The building next to mine is for sale, that same woman is still sitting on the wall at Geary and Larkin against Thai House. People are still walking down the street yelling at themselves and scaring each other. Cheap new sandwich shops are opening up all over the place. One off them, Lee's Sandwiches, is one of the better ones.

Lee’s is brand new and has a bright, almost modern, interior. When you go in there you feel like you’re entering a newer place, rather than those other dingy locations that are small and dirty on the front sidewalks. Not that I don’t like those places, it’s just that when someone opens up a nice shop in the area, I would push for keeping it clean and free of any drama.

With kids having to spend their free afterschool time inside, scared of going out and finding their friends, we in TL should do our best to help improve our neighborhood and not tolerate straight up nastiness on our streets. Having people wander around the area half-clothed with their hands out asking for money very loudly isn’t helping anyone. It is not helping families, businesses, and it’s most definitely not helping those who are asking for money.

Let’s spend our city’s tax dollars on social re-investments. These re-investments will help small business people create their own ways of living and will develop a sense ownership in neighborhood residents. If we are to be a true community, a healthy city, which mostly rents, we should create real opportunities for residents to own a piece of where they live. Only through giving people meaningful ways to change and create their neighborhoods around them, where they can use their imaginations and intellects, will we achieve a truly utopian society.

However, as we continue to be sedated with ratings, statistics, and violence, we don’t want to get involved. This is the State of the Democratic Party. We are a morally corrupt lot, but we acknowledge this moral corruption and look the other way when this shit happens.