I think it helps to have a nuanced opinion and make sure we don't spiral into an echo chamber. For my example, I've found that lefties are able to identify a lot of the right problems, it's just that they think gay space communism is the solution to it.
For instance, I completely agree that North American cities are really stupidly designed. The car-centric nature of them means you're stranded if your vehicle breaks down. The fact that you have to go into debt to buy this big stupid box to navigate your own city is ridiculous in the first place.
But when it comes to their solutions for this they can't separate their stupid idpol nonsense from it. My local city government keeps talking about "equitable solutions" to traffic and pedestrian fatalities. Typical "world ending, women most affected" type stuff.
Plus they keep droning on about high density housing which absolutely no one wants to live in. in their utopia we'd all live in depressing Soviet-style block apartments.
I don't think anyone but the most extreme lefties want to outlaw private vehicle ownership. What I'm getting at with the walkability stuff is that it would be nice to be able to walk around my own neighborhood without being put in mortal danger from mongoloids in Dodge Chargers.
I understand your concern and worries. I'm just worried about city dwellers dictating policy for the entire State or Country. California for example passes emission laws. My State did not, but car manufactures build their cars to suit California laws because they are bigger than us. Then they use the adoption as a wedge in to passing laws mandating California laws at the Federal level.
Therefore my stance is any pro city policy in the largest cities in the State will inevitably be used to bully the smaller areas of population within the State to fall in line. There are other examples, not car related, that have played out in our history. I will admit I have a huge bias against cities.
I don't believe humans were meant to live in the conditions of the city. I think it breeds moral decay. It can work to degrees under different circumstances but it is not ideal. All it does is create more problems in the end, especially given the changing makeup of the population, like worrying about mongoloids in dodge chargers running you down.
speaking of emission laws, ever wonder why pickups all of a sudden got so big and boxy a decade or two ago?
emission laws
Perfect example...look at the voting habits of Illinois. One city dictates the direction for the entire state. Anything outside Chicago and the collar counties are blue, the rest of the state is red.
Funny enough this is a wonderful example of the kind of thing that the Interstate Commerce Clause is supposed to prevent.
If it were ever enforced honestly CA would have to abolish hundreds of state laws.
Cities have pros and cons like anything else. I do plan to divest myself from city life, but the time frame is probably 10 years. The things it offers are starting to get worse while the problems are amplified.
It would be easier to leave if I didn't own property or have a family. In the meantime I do think there are ways to improve but I don't trust city government to implement anything correctly.
I think that issue is more of a mongoloid problem than a Dodge Charger problem, though.
Dodge Chargers are like pitbulls. Only the worst demographics go for them.
That has more to do with crime than car ownership now doesn't it?
It has to do with there being zero pedestrian infrastructure.
Wide sidewalks, crosswalks and skywalks aren't enough for you? What do you want, no roads at all?
City Urban Libral Type energy right there.
There are plenty of places tbat qualify as "city" without being the huge urban megacities, that do not consistently have sidewalks, etc.
My neighborhood has no sidewalks at all.
You can’t rely on pedestrian and public transit infrastructure when your city is overrun with “diversity”. Violence and crime literally follow public transit wherever it goes. That’s the reason why America doesn’t invest in these areas like Europe does.
Even Euroids are giving up on walking, if that Bluesky picture of cars parked on their narrow, walkable roads is any indication.
They want to outlaw it by strangling it to death with ridiculous burdensome regulation.
What you're getting at is you're a hyperbolic twatwaffle.
What a productive and intelligent thing to say.
Except on public trans now I'm put in mortal danger of mongoloids sharing the public trans with me. Honestly, if there was a 100% white city, or even like... 100% non-black city, people would be much more inclined to use public trans and not have suburbs. I bought my home in my zip because there were no blacks when I moved in. Blacks are starting to move in, and now for the first time in 30 years in this community I'm considering moving out to a rural area. Vandalism, graffiti, littering, crime, noisy disruptions, blaring music at midnight have all spiked with just a 1-2% increase in blacks over the past 5 years.