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Worse, it's likely to cause store owners to flee San Francisco before the new law goes into effect.

In which case, they may just decide to pursue a scorched earth policy using the power they've been given; because if they can't have it, then nobody can.

Except that runs the risk of the "evil advisors" taking control. Which, in many ways, has also already happened.

CORRECTION; YOU WILL NOT BE HAPPY. BUT THAT'S OKAY, BECAUSE YOU DON'T DESERVE TO BE HAPPY. YOU ARE ONLY PERMITTED TO BE AFRAID.

A lot of people are going to die, and most of them won't understand why.

It's the fact that they never reflect on the results of their actions, and just repeat them ad nauseam, that proves it. If they simply went "well that clearly didn't work; we need to dig deep and figure out what went wrong with our approach, before we even think to try this again" they might...

Yeah, but in America, none of those media have the cultural inertia of Hollywood; which is the only thing that really matters to most people.