Most people here are driving huge honkin’ SUVs and are screaming about the lack of street parking, even though they have driveways.
The entitlement is pure insanity, and this is from so called leftist liberals. The same ones who support BLM, but viciously oppose any new development, especially anything that with affordable housing units.
Truth is a lot of lefties become conservatives when they the issues affect them.
Yeah, that’s my experience as well. The YIMBY-NIMBY divide crosses traditional party lines. There’s something deeply ironic about seeing someone saying we need to solve inequality and the climate crisis, then turn around and say multifamily housing, bike lanes, and public transit will destroy the neighborhood.
Like, you can either be for climate solutions or sprawling suburbia, but not both. You can be for solving the housing crisis or sprawling suburbia, but not both. You can be for fixing things or the status quo, but not both.
Somehow I suspect, if this account is accurate, it’s wildly anecdotal. Did you ask them their politics as they ranted about street parking from their Escalade? You’re sure that these SUV driving, public infrastructure hating, affordable housing hating are leftists? They just sound like NPC neolibs to me.
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I live in a ‘communist’ city.
Most people here are driving huge honkin’ SUVs and are screaming about the lack of street parking, even though they have driveways.
The entitlement is pure insanity, and this is from so called leftist liberals. The same ones who support BLM, but viciously oppose any new development, especially anything that with affordable housing units.
Truth is a lot of lefties become conservatives when they the issues affect them.
Yeah, that’s my experience as well. The YIMBY-NIMBY divide crosses traditional party lines. There’s something deeply ironic about seeing someone saying we need to solve inequality and the climate crisis, then turn around and say multifamily housing, bike lanes, and public transit will destroy the neighborhood.
Like, you can either be for climate solutions or sprawling suburbia, but not both. You can be for solving the housing crisis or sprawling suburbia, but not both. You can be for fixing things or the status quo, but not both.
Somehow I suspect, if this account is accurate, it’s wildly anecdotal. Did you ask them their politics as they ranted about street parking from their Escalade? You’re sure that these SUV driving, public infrastructure hating, affordable housing hating are leftists? They just sound like NPC neolibs to me.
I’m in St Paul, MN. I see the same stuff as their anecdote.
Minneapolis is the same way too.
This must be a USA thing Latin American leftists would die on the streets for more public spaces and walkable/bicycle cites. I know I would.