I live a block from a supermarket and metro stop. 10 min from a ballpark, 10 min from the soccer stadium. 15 min from DCA. I can walk to dozens and dozens of restaurants and stores. What are these assholes so afraid of—that life doesn’t have to be awful and isolating?
Heaven forbid we're able to walk to stores instead of having to drive to them. I want to find common ground with people, but it's always a shock when someone sees my ideal version of the future as an authoritarian hellscape.
They are all convinced that the people who live in cities live in bombed-out hellscapes with no amenities whatsoever, and that most of those people are “of color” (which they are not). They are convinced they will be forced to live like the poor they imagine deserve their fate, and they fear it.
It's a result of brainwashing 100%. Constant stream of stories for the past 40 years (most fake) via Rush Limbaugh, then Fox News, now so steeped in their culture it's simply "comedians" and Facebook memes can do it. No counter narrative to challenge that.
For some people I think it’s not their version of the American dream: owning an entire building, having a big yard, and cars. They see all of this as some kind of failure or even limitation, even if they can’t put it into words.
