And as long as you've socialized most of the costs of roads and parking and fossil fuel extraction and protection of the fossil fuel supply and… 1/

The US subsidizes the hell out of what we ought to be able to agree is way of organizing ourselves not worth its cost in the ways that it's good, harmful to the environment, also actively harmful to us in some respects (e.g. social isolation). 2/

Until we do come to agree to at least start reducing our subsidy to all of that, which includes massive quantities of space devoted public and private to parking lots, yeah, it's gonna be hard to get people to switch out of the lives they are literally paid to live. /fin