Where Ronald Reagan was king and everyone agreed with Republicans.
Even if Will didn’t have his facts backward, the larger point is that his analysis of transportation choices as a cultural struggle is bizarre and wrong. Will considers climate science a gigantic hoax, and obviously nothing is going to change his mind. Yet he takes his mania a step further by failing to understand that Democrats actually do believe in climate science, and are not merely pretending to believe it as a pretext to enlarge their nefarious control of the populace.
Hence he regularly propounds crackpot arguments such as “the real reason for progressives’ passion for trains is their goal of diminishing Americans’ individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism.” In fact, Democrats don’t want to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions because they want to alter people’s transportation choices. They want to alter people’s transportation choices because they want to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions.
The first law of the Republican Party (1%) is this: #1. Individualism is always better than collectivism. They believe that. Of course they are wrong. At least in the eyes of the majority of us in the 99%. For proof of what the ruling class actually believes just study any war. ***** Because the 1% owns a majority of our wealth they are fully aware of what will happen to their power if they share what they own with the “collective.” (Or with “we the people” if you’d like.) So they “clutch” to it tightly. Any war will show you the results of their mindset. And their “clutching.”
Is Will a bow tie wearer? He needs to loosen it so some blood can reach his brain.
There’s some kind of karma in a guy whose whole shtick was the calm rational anti-crackpot becoming a crackpot.
Republicans don’t five a fuck about individualism. They serve the 1%. ‘Individualism,’ like every other bullshit trope they mouth, is a red herring, a smoke screen for the hegemony of the moneyed vampire class.
Can’t argue with that Ron.