Anti-matter / Anti-San Franciso

I said I'd write about living in San Francisco, but I haven't done so yet. In an oblique manner, I am about to fix that. Here is something you would never see in San Francisco. Celebration of diversity and tolerance in SF stops short of political diversity.

San Francisco voted 85% for Kerry and only 15% for Bush. That is more lop-sided than Manhattan. Everyone here assumes that anyone they meet or talk to is a liberal Democrat (or Green). Living here is like living in a political landscape that was picked up by some Political Deux ex Machina who shifted everything to the left so that Richard Gephardt would be labeled a rabid right-winger before dropping it back down.