>>10468781Corporate brainwashing, pure and simple. Since the 1890s, Americans have been indoctrinated by corporations like General Motors that anything that doesn't resemble a car is Satan, of communist design or against the idea of American exceptionalism. General Motors and the like are the sole reason public transport and non-automotive transport virtually stopped existing, and by using lobbying, advertisements and propaganda left their footprint on the US population. After the oil crisis, America was pretty much the only nation in the world that didn't decide to take a critical look at her own infrastructure which was heavily used by cars.
