grow berkeley, henry viii, i will take michael moore. i will take anything, because increasingly that was a cheap shot. increasingly, the don t like there are fewer places to hide. the main reason is deflection. the activist class is a shallow, stupid breed with absurd priorities. and their leaders know that for it all you need to do is dangle some performative act of symbolic justice in front of them and like a in front of hunter, they will climb all over it. then you don t need to do any real work at all. watch as your city travels back to the 1970s and blame the statues. you can coast along by shifting the conversation to a race in the past and call that progress. it s not just new york, whether at san francisco, where they are closing down drug stores due to crime, or downtown portland during another night of mob violence. all you need to do are a few things. demand changing the problematic