You can always trust former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown to speak his mind, no matter who is offended.  So when he went after Democrats for ignoring the reality of decline in San Francisco, he didn’t pull any punches. Well, maybe a few. Brown wouldn’t say which politicians, in particular, were responsible for rampant homelessness, drug use, and crime. (He was succeeded as mayor by Gavin Newsom, of course.) But he did talk about the problem of “idealism” in city government, where activists