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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j476m58 wrote

Reply to comment by stacy_142 in Pennsylvania Senate passes bill to cut state gas tax by wildfireonvenus

In the post-WW2 era, the United States (via FHA) made a conscious decision to channel white people into artificial car-dependent country estates, and channel non-white people into city housing developments like Cabrini Green.
 
The United States also made the decision, via tax policy, to incentivize businesses to relocate near these artificial housing developments at the cost of cities. Surburban shopping malls were an accelerated depreciation scheme.

 
People did not choose to live this way and drive 40 miles a day organically, the government made it happen.

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e30eric t1_j479676 wrote

> People did not choose to live this way and drive 40 miles a day organically, the government made it happen.

Oh man, I've got some bad news for you about who "the government" is in a democracy...

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j479cfp wrote

The US is a plutocracy and always has been. Decisions are made with a mind to how the rich benefit, and autocentric development has worked out really good for them.

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e30eric t1_j47bq1j wrote

It is because that's what people voted and continue to vote for, simple as that. It isn't some natural order or outcome, there are similar democracies with fantastic infrastructure 🤷‍♂️

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j47bwim wrote

Medicare for all and legal marijuana are two of the most popular policies in America, across all sides of the political spectrum. They're never getting instituted because Washington represents the rich, not you or me.
 
The choice to strand white people out in segregated, car-dependent country estates was a deliberate policy decision that has been incredibly destructive to the American countryside and American way of life, but it benefited the right people and that's why it was done.

 
When you've got a spare hour or so, watch this:
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2022/01/24/independent-lens-owned-a-tale-of-two-americas

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e30eric t1_j47gao3 wrote

I completely disagree. Sure they are examples of a popular policy, but people vote for who they vote for and it's on all of us individually for getting what we deserve for those decisions. No person gets a special excuse for having a leopard eat their face just because a few rich pricks use their resources to convince them that it's patriotic to jump in the cage.

A few hundred billionaires can't control an unwilling population, only a willing one.

It's so odd that a country that beats its chest about personal responsibility struggles the most with this concept.

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j47gpew wrote

Did you watch that documentary yet?

 

The electorate has a whole host of problems that we'd like to see addressed. This incoming House of Representatives is going to spend two years talking about Hunter Biden's dick instead. What the people vote for and what the people get are two very different things.

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e30eric t1_j47ki21 wrote

Will do, thank you for sharing :)

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Alternative-Flan2869 t1_j4aez6x wrote

Wow. They have you completely brainwashed.

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e30eric t1_j4b2n4p wrote

You think voters aren't responsible for their government in a democracy? What's brainwashed about pointing out the literal principal of what separates a democracy from other forms of government?

And Pennsylvania of all states 😂 The state that has been fooled into electing the same people for a few decades now, long enough for slow burn gerrymandering -- and then act all surprised pikachu that things no longer change or get better.

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