Actually, if I’m reading the quote from Ogles right, they’re doing this not because they can, but to demonstrate that they can. That’s pretty significant. Still evil, but significant.
Well, if the poor have access to transportation, they’ll be able to get jobs and make money, and then they won’t be poor anymore and thus we’ll be unable to hate them.
Can’t find it on Google, but I recall reading about some English aristocrat in the 1830s being dead-set against railways because “these things will allow the working classes to move about!”
Indeed. He designed the overpasses on the Long Island “parkways” to be to low for buses to pass under to discourage busing city dwellers to Jones Beach.
First, they came for the mass transit in Nashville. I said nothing because I’m not from Nashville.
Then, they came for the mass transit in Memphis. I said nothing because I’m not from Memphis.
Then, they came for the mass transit in Los Angeles…and they said, “Waitaminute, who got here before us???”
I don’t get some of the stuff ALEC or AFP stands for. Why would ALEC support stand your ground laws, or why would AFP oppose a bus line?
Are they just throwing bones to their voter base to keep them happy? This bus line will benefit non-whites and poor people, and will make some middle class (whites) uncomfortable according to the article. Is AFP opposed to it because of that, or something else? I don’t get the motive.
Not to engage in godwins law or histrionics, but I have read that fascism is a unity between the wealthy business class and the socially conservative working class. Seems about right, although these people aren’t nearly powerful enough to be rightly called fascists. But there is a lot of hostility to democratic institutions.