[rjbwork]

Even moreso than guns, the automobile industry has been waging an incredibly successful propaganda campaign for over a century now equating the ownership and use of a personal automobile with freedom.

[snapcaster]

This is true, people having a complete meltdown to the idea of walkable cities was very telling

[potato3732842]

It's because it's being peddled by the same "oh, I know how we'll use government to fix this problem that isn't top 10 on anyone's list" types who's in previous generations gave us unwalkable cities, unaffordable housing, and the modern urban-suburban hellscape.

While individual points are supported or resisted individually and by individuals, when you sum it up on a population level it's like a gut reaction against listening to someone who's lead you astray before.

Basically the people pushing changes lack the political and cultural capital to see them through because the capital was wasted for naught in decades past.

[A4ET8a8uTh0_v2]

Have you tried to move around US w/o it? As propaganda goes, it is pretty spot on.

[baggachipz]

Only because the car companies made it that way through lobbying and stifling mass transit efforts.

[rglullis]

What is cause and what is effect, and which of those do people can control?