Despicable Display

During the height of the Cold War, when the average Russian citizen was on the verge of starvation, forced to stand in lines for hours in freezing temperatures for the basic necessities, whenever a famous person from the west – Earnest Hemingway, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, and so on – came to visit the Soviet Union, they never saw the bread lines or the toilet paper lines or the people starving, Hey only saw a country that was flourishing. Prior to their visit, the people were fed and cleaned, and propped up to appear to be living happy and productive lives in the Soviet Union. So, these Westerners would return to America or Europe, gushing about how wonderful communism is, when in reality, the Russian people were miserable, and the country was on the verge of collapse.

 This week, Chinesecommunist dictator see Xi Jinping visited San Francisco – a city that had become one of America’s eyesores, where crime is rampant, homelessness is on every street corner, open air drug use, and human feces strewn on every sidewalk. For years, critics have been pleading with the mayor of San Francisco, London Breed and the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, to clean up this once beautiful city. Just step in and clean it up – arrest the criminals, take the homeless people off the streets, put the drug addicts in rehab, pick up the garbage and remove the human waste, turn San Francisco back into the gem it once was. It is not very complicated. They just need a will to do it.