I’ve tried this argument with them, it doesn’t work. They just shift focus to “Waste of our money”, which of course is then “What about roads”, and then they go back to “But people use roads”, “But people use transit too”. They’ll just point to the next thing fox news has taught them.
They’ve already decided those who disagree with them are below them. The people who use transit aren’t people in their minds, not truly. Second class citizens at best, untermenschen at worst.
I’ve frequently broken peoples brains when they’re arguing against transit and they use that. “Only poor people use transit”. I ride transit, and I make a decent living in tech. They then either make a really lame attempt at a joke like “You must not be doing that well” then or stumble and mutter and change the subject. Can’t have anything that challenges their worldview right?
I’ve tried this argument with them, it doesn’t work. They just shift focus to “Waste of our money”, which of course is then “What about roads”, and then they go back to “But people use roads”, “But people use transit too”. They’ll just point to the next thing fox news has taught them.
They’ve already decided those who disagree with them are below them. The people who use transit aren’t people in their minds, not truly. Second class citizens at best, untermenschen at worst.
I’ve frequently broken peoples brains when they’re arguing against transit and they use that. “Only poor people use transit”. I ride transit, and I make a decent living in tech. They then either make a really lame attempt at a joke like “You must not be doing that well” then or stumble and mutter and change the subject. Can’t have anything that challenges their worldview right?