Comments on: The Enemy of People Who Move Around https://www.isegoria.net/2014/10/the-enemy-of-people-who-move-around/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Toddy Cat https://www.isegoria.net/2014/10/the-enemy-of-people-who-move-around/comment-page-1/#comment-1597382 Toddy Cat Fri, 03 Oct 2014 18:38:41 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=36117#comment-1597382 I suppose it depends who you call a progressive. The Robert Moses types certainly liked automobiles, but he wasn’t very progressive by today’s standards, and he was certainly no Commie. I guess that this just shows how much “progressivism” has changed in the last fifty-sixty years.

]]> By: Contemplationist https://www.isegoria.net/2014/10/the-enemy-of-people-who-move-around/comment-page-1/#comment-1597329 Contemplationist Fri, 03 Oct 2014 18:11:21 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=36117#comment-1597329 Toddy Cat:

Well, except that early-mid century Progressives pushed for the automobile over private forms of mass transit such as street cars.

]]> By: Toddy Cat https://www.isegoria.net/2014/10/the-enemy-of-people-who-move-around/comment-page-1/#comment-1591977 Toddy Cat Wed, 01 Oct 2014 14:00:41 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=36117#comment-1591977 This also explains why so many liberals and lefties, like James Kunstler, hate cars — all that mobility just makes the all-seeing, all-knowing central planners jobs more difficult.

Although Kunstler has recently come out in favor of closing the border, and has noticed our society’s War on Young Men, so I suppose that I should cut him some slack…

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