Matt Lewis is a rare conservative that gets it with new urbanism and the need to make Americas living environment more sustainable and less of the sprawl that has been governmentally forced upon the public. The masses are ignorant of the dullness of suburbia and how chains and big box stores predominate over the sphere making room for lots and parking availability over charm and a place of sense. Matt had two guests lately on is podcast talking about this loss in suburbia of walkable areas and a sense of seeing your neighbors and being part of a community. Matt feels these are conservative issues and somehow this has been lost on the religious right and the Republicans.
Matt questions why this is and he and his guests didn't come up with the obvious answer to why conservatives embraced the McMansion and the move out of the car-dependent suburbs. It is so easy that I really don't think Matt is that stupid nor ignorant to see why conservatives world embrace a move out to the suburbs. They only want to be out and have their tax dollars spent on people who share their morals in society. They can't stand folks that are different or intellect academics that question authority.
The suburbs also were built on the Republican free market corporate dominance on all aspects of society and why we see millions of McDonald's restaurants in the suburbs not to mention banks. If there is one structure that gladly bulldozes all old buildings in the suburbs and dominates the landscape it has to be banks. Conservatives want cheap living with little spending outside their required tithes to feed their pastors lifestyles and lies and indeed you see some of the most humongous church's outside of cities where zoning laws and prices would keep them modest. I am glad though there are some conservatives that are starting to get it that there is something wrong with the landscape where we have to spend so much time burning oil into the atmosphere for our long commutes to their gated communities. Basically it is Christian and neo-capitalist ignorance and neglect for the environment why conservatives love sprawl and their Ability to be at away from the people they hold most in contempt in society . It is because their demands for low density living that comes with high price costs that most people in cities and urban areas should not have to continue to subsidize with our tax dollars. Their arrangement should be allowed to go bankrupt along with their bank backers and a new urbanism culture to quickly and gradually develop as oil runs out or gets way too expensive.
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