Why does the Bay Area hate George Bush so much? Is it really about partisan machine politics or an innate culture of dissent? SFist thinks it's more a matter of self-preservation. The fact is you could probably plan the administration's policy strategy in advance by taking the expressed concerns of the majority of Bay Area voters and doing exactly the opposite. And sometimes it seems they screw us out of sheer spite.

While political strategists note the near-religious fervor of Bush supporters and the preeminence of moral issues in the tone of his campaign, SFist feels the local attitude is just as rigorously moral, but rather than focus on the morality of reproduction activists and drug-policy didacts, here we focus on the morality of poverty, violence and equal protection under the law. San Francisco honors its namesake through devotion to the beatitudes, not just the 10 commandments.