The USSR, where "comrade" was a relevant term, has been gone for over 30 years. That's three full decades. Are you done embarassing yourself?

Is that how you make yourself feel better about your prejudice and hypocrisy?

That's racist and ignorant.

"Teen"

If you're going to do such a project you need to do two things: First, do it as quickly as possible, most opposition comes from people mad that their park will be closed for at least three years. Spend the money to do it more quickly. Second, improve the park in terms of features. If you can show a relatively short time scale and shiny pictures of some neat new features of the park, people will smile and go along with it.

The utter obtuseness of officials who don't understand these two things is a major reason why nothing gets done. This is basic customer service - minimize the interruption and give the customer something for their trouble.

The basic idea can be extended to all city develoment - consider transit planning. You want to build a new subway line you need to build it as quickly as possible and you need to deliver an experience that people really enjoy. Moscow recently demonstrated this, you can look up videos of their new "circle line" on Youtube. They prioritized speed of construction and they built interesting, beautiful stations that make people excited to visit. There are no complaints. For building developments, just make the new building not ugly. Seattle succesfully sped up their development process by removing a host of interruptions in exchange for giving local committees design oversight. It turns out people just wanted things done quickly and to not have to look at some ugly piece of shit forever once it was done.

you say you love learning, yet you skip this opportunity to do so? being serious, if you are into genetics SF Bay has a large biotech hub and USF would connect you to opportunities there. considering it also is supporting your costs you should certainly consider it.