[spacemadness]

Yes, talking about adding bike lanes in cities and improving public transportation should really infuriate the rural demographic that continually think everything is about them and their way of life. These ideas must all come from the cult of anti-car that wants to come into every tiny city and change everything overnight apparently. It’s typical status quo paranoia that always tries to halt any progress in these areas.

[mellosouls]

the rural demographic that continually think everything is about them and their way of life

Rubbish, these articles are nearly always written by and supported by the dominant voice in the mainstream media - young, liberal city-dwellers, who seem to have no concept that there is a huge part of the population who are funding their "progress", often at the expense of their own infrastructure and quality of life.

[spacemadness]

I mean, sure, that is in fact the ridiculously paranoid narrative that keeps that argument afloat. Those damn city slickers.