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"Aren't those laws being lobbied by corporations who only fund the politicians that promise to keep things in their favor?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOttvpjJvAo



What's stopping people from voting for "cyclist Joe" who promises to transform the city into new Amsterdam (no, not NYC :-) or new Berlin?


> What's stopping people from voting for "cyclist Joe"

The corporations who are lobbying and funding the campaign of "Trucker Bob" and "Soccer Mom Susan".


Nevertheless I thought that elections were free.


The laws that maintain roads for personal car use? Those are genuinely popular laws, not some sort of spooky corporate conspiracy. You anti-car cycle fascists can't seem to comprehend that your cause is unpopular.


The term "jaywalking" was invented by car companies in a political campaign to reframe the car deaths problem as the fault of pedestrians.

You're conflating "the cause is unpopular" with "the cause organically became unpopular".




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