Certain people like to say San Francisco needs a "Batman" to fix its ills.
Folks. Batman has been trying to fix Gotham for around 85 years and it's worse than ever.
But the choice of metaphor says everything. It's a fantasy of extrajudicial punishment and vengeance by oligarchical characters, not a vision for solutions.
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