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 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?
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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.