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What I cannot understand is how so many of my fellow Americans actually like it this way. And I get that a lot of it is ignorance and status quo bias, but you don't have to visit, or even know about, the places with great transportation infrastructure to know that ours sucks.
You're only options to get anywhere are drive or fly and both suck and are expensive, uncomfortable and inconvenient. I mean, I've never visited any of the world's great transportation areas. I've never experienced that first hand, but I've sure as hell driven around the US and I absolutely fucking hate it. Traffic, asshole drivers, crumbling infrastructure yet somehow also constant road construction, getting anywhere in this country is a pain in the ass.
Racism.
Many Americans would rather die than have black people have nice things. If you build a good bus system, black people will use it. They won't suffer for being "lesser" like they "deserve".
That's it. Conservatism demands out groups to punch down at.
At which point do we just call it what it is, racism?
Even the ones that aren’t specifically opposed to black people in their neighborhood, few and far between amongst that subset, would be against some other non WASP demographic even if it’s just the poor and unhoused