…the queen was not amused.

NDT, like any city, there are good people and bad. Glad you’re meeting the good ones. As a sometimes visitor – I don’t see the grassroot efforts. I see the dirty hippies and the homeless. I get attacked by my  ‘open minded’ liberal friends and relatives. So I enjoy the city for a few days and escape back to what my son calls: Materialistic Southern Ca, where people are honest about it, not cloaking their consumerism in lofty lefty ideals.

I even managed to get lost down in Fisherman’s Wharf for an hour or so. I was scared about being lost in a big city but fortunately a Guardian Angel (first I’d ever heard of them) realized that I was lost and took me to some nearby police officers.

I’d love to go back sometime.

It is an amazing city. Never thought I could live here….but now I have trouble imagining living anywhere else. Yes, it’s a political and human cesspool in several respects…..but I have met and gotten to know so many good people while I’m here.

Seriously, though, it’s not quite as anti-Republican as you think…..the loud ones are, but as the nutball liberals and Newsom slowly send the City’s precarious finances toppling over the edge, people are starting to demand answers.

As to artists and politics. I’m paraphrasing Dennis Prager here – great art and morality are not the same thing. One can be a great artist and an awful human being, or simply have really bad political views.

Though nowadays most artists tend to be liberal. May have to do with the fact that they don’t like the business side, which is indispensable  if one wants to make a living off ones talents.
Of course Annie doesn’t fall into that catagory, but as most gays have found- it’s easier to ‘belong’ if you are a lefty.  Sometimes it takes someone 60 years, like David Mamet, to wake up and really examine his life before he realizes that being a brain dead liberal is not a prerequisite to being a talented artist.