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.
By design, cash for clunkers got rid of a ton of usable used cars off the market. Cars do not need to be 40-50k+. They are only this way because of the Government and activists who want you to be reliable on a centralized service. They do this by pricing you out and forcing you onto their shitty socialized transit services.
I love my car, always have, always will. I drive a 08 that runs like new because I take care of it and the thing has taken me all over the country. I don't care about cities at all they can go fuck themselves. They suck anyways, I don't know why anyone with a brain would want to live in one. Especially in 2024.
Cities are bullies.
Only people who live in cities, and have no reason to go anywhere but other cities, are against price car ownership. Those people seem to lack the ability to understand just how far apart rural America is from each other. To them, a bus, train or (ironically) someone else's privately owned Uber can get them anywhere at pretty much any time. They don't seem to understand that even 30 miles would become insurmountable in rural America without your own vehicle.
Although, they probably do understand and just hate us.
There is a massive disconnect between city dwellers and us more rural folk. They refuse to understand our way of life. They just assume you can uber to the nearest place. When in reality the nearest grocery store is 40 miles from me. How the fuck am I supposed to get to it with government funded socialized transit in bum fuck nowhere?
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.