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.
A significant plurality of Americans simply don’t want to live like that. It’s not a failure on our part. We are purposely declining to replicate Tokyo.
And that is fine. But it is important for cities to make collective decisions when it comes to infrastructure.
Economically, wealth is generated in cities, because that is where the factories and services are.
You can live a rural life, but you will be a minority and you will miss opportunities to do so.
When it comes to transportation, I would much rather live in Tokyo than LA.
Right now most Americans don't trust big government projects and they don't trust the government to run services like trains. That just means you don't get trains. Privatizing the rail service doesn't work either. The UK tried that, and as a result they have the most expensive train tickets in the world.