Comments by "Bushrod Rust Johnson" (@MilwaukeeF40C) on "How did smart growth become politically divisive?" video.

  1. I don't know about the Glenn Beck stuff, but I do know that eminent domain for private development, zoning bureaucracy, targeted subsidies, and governments trying to manipulate behavior and economic choices is going to piss certain kinds of people off. I work in engineering. Most of the "sustainable" stuff is pure crap and tiring. LEED, what a joke.
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  2. The type of development that the goals of "smart growth" most resembles is just an idealized version of how things were turning out when there was very little government "planning" and involvement in transportation and land use at all. Most of the "problems" that sustainability agendas attempt to address were just caused by past top-down agendas, such as subsidized highways.
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  3. Some people are just not incentivized by cliquey bullshit, which is what draws and drives most modern middle class city culture. The stuff about corruption, crime, and a shit public sector also sticks. It's not "hard right". That's simplistic crap.
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  4. I will never be without automotive transportation.
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  5. "I live on 22 acres in Vermont." Sounds like thin ice to me. "It's called democracy. You can't always get what you want." What are you NOT okay with being put up for a vote?
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  6. Global population is projected to peak this century. There is absolutely no shortage of living space. Every resource shortage (hunger) is political, not practical or natural. The U.S. does not have a production problem. People buy and throw away more food than ever, and individual expenditures on food have outpaced inflation because tastes have gotten more expensive.
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  7. I've heard of SCAG from halfway across the continent. The old Soviet post-fall exile they have/had amongst their higher ups is a pompous prick. I guess he had to find some other place to lord over and found welcoming company in California.
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  8. The road to hell is paved with mundane good intentions. And shitloads of condescension.
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  9. Democrats keep feeding material.
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  10. High rises may be nice for people who can afford nice. For people who can't, low rise or detached has clear advantages.
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