Timothy Birdnow

We (at least we at The Aviary) have known this all along.

Why states are quietly moving to restrict how much you drive

Yes, Progressives are falsely using concerns about climate and air quality to take away your God-given right to travel as you see fit. That is, of course, one of the early steps to controlling the population and imposing their will on people.

They tried for years by pushing public transportation but it never caught on so they went to "climate change" as a weapon to say you are hurting people by driving. Now they are quietly taking steps to restrict driving by Americans and to push "fifteen minute cities" with people living in high rise apartments cheek-by-jowel as it were. They've tried to make such overcrowding look cool but there is nothing cool about it - just look at Pruitt-Igo the poster boy for high-rise housing projects. PI was built in St. Louis and was promised to solve the problem of slums in the area. People were transitioned to these projects and they quickly became crime riddled hellholes, falling down and decaying. Rats wandered the halls. Bugs infested the apartments. There were regular shootings there and everyone knew not to go anywhere near them in the dark. Eventually they were torn down - a huge waste of money.

There were other such housing projects in St. Louis. They were all equally terrible. My father was driving by one of them and related this story; it was a hot day and this was before cars had air conditioning, or most didn't anyway. A couple was in their car with the windows down. A thug reached into the car and grabbed thw woman's purse. The husband stupidly got out and chased the kid - and Dad said the man came running out a moment later, half a dozen black men on his tail. That was a common occurance at any of these projects.

So high rises failed and they decided to try a different tactic. They build a series of detached townhomes "Laclede Village" which was intended to be a multiracial affair with rental assisatance. It was multiracial - the first year. After that it was entirely black and utterly crime riddled. The remains of Laclede Village were still there when I went to college (it was just east of St. Louis University) and everyone knew not to park on the east side of the cmapus. These townhomes are now gone, needless to say.

We've tried this condensing of the populate before; it doesn't work.

But they Left will keep trying because they need to corral the populace, just as one must corral a horse. It's the way they can control us, by having us all in one place where they can take actions to compel "right" behavior. If you train a horse you must first catch it and put it in the corral.

I wrote about this some years back. Mobility is more akin to a civil right than a privilege. That's why the Left hates it so much; it thwarts their scheme of controlling us.

so liberal politicians want to restrict how much we drive, eh? Maybe we should restrict how far THEY drive, or walk, for that matter. A few years in the state pen would do wonders for 'em.

Mileage taxes, peak time toll pricing, etc.are all becoming fixtures in Blue cities as a way to force people onto public transit - or stay at home. This will need to be taken to the Supreme Court at some point; we need a definitive ruling on the rights of the citizenry to travel unmolested by government.

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