The date is August 30, 2024, in San Francisco, and city leaders have decided it’s time to show tough love.
Unhoused residents are forced into shelters, setting up “Sanctuary Districts” where they’re told they can find a room and apply for jobs. The city’s wealthiest citizens are driving political decisions, supporting police sweeps that clear tents from city streets. And with fewer visible homeless, officials declare the mission accomplished.
What sounds like rhetoric from a recent mayoral debate, or one of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s euphemism-filled plans to tackle poverty, is actually the 29-year-old dystopian plot of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.” In early 1995 the series released a two-part episode called “Past Tense,” predicting what San Francisco would look like … this coming weekend.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/article/star-trek-predicted-sf-2024-crisis-19722416.php
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