San Francisco slowly slides into oblivion ?

The George F. Will article at the Sacramento Bee entitled Ueber-left fails in San Francisco surely indicates that the flower-power days of Haight-Ashbury and their aftermath have left their mark on the Golden Gate City in a manner no one really could have expected. Given the constant and real danger of a strong earthquake in this region in the future, is this a Sodom and Gomorrah of modern times?