Western Standard - The war on cars is a war on freedom

00:00:00.000 the war on personal automobiles and it is a war on the individuals and i'll explain why

00:00:04.960 so you look all the way back to when henry ford was envisioning the model t and he said i'll build

00:00:10.720 a motor car for the great multitude it'll be large enough for the family but small enough

00:00:15.040 for the individual to run and care for it'll be constructed of the best materials by the best men

00:00:19.360 to be hired after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise but it'll be so low in

00:00:24.720 price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one and enjoy with his family the

00:00:30.320 blessing of hours of pleasure in god's great open spaces now he followed up on that and when the

00:00:36.640 multi was released it changed the world personal automobiles were no longer a novelty or a luxury

00:00:41.840 for the wealthy middle-income families could now travel independently of public transit trains or

00:00:47.760 with a horse and wagon workers who'd been confined to employment options within walking distance or

00:00:52.720 perhaps public transit reach they could suddenly seek employment elsewhere should they choose to

00:00:57.840 i mean so commuters now had i mean commuters were created and they had more options than ever

00:01:02.080 consumers were empowered as well families with personal automobiles could now comparison shop with

00:01:06.400 more distant retailers local businesses including the old company store no longer held small consumer

00:01:12.000 bases captive and they had to compete and earn business of consumers that they had previously taken

00:01:16.720 for granted and then of course rural citizens i mean they can now reach neighboring communities

00:01:21.760 for consumer goods or supplemental employment if need be traveling salesmen i mean they broaden their

00:01:26.560 ranges and the earliest incarnation of amazon prime was created as home delivery of goods expanded

00:01:31.600 intercity or even interstate migration became a reality for a lot of people who had felt trapped

00:01:36.320 prior in their residences people can move to where the work was in ways they never imagined only a few

00:01:42.720 years prior now unions will never like to admit it but the personal automobile did as much to empower

00:01:47.040 workers than their labor organizations ever had all right just strike held employers accountable the

00:01:52.720 ability to find work elsewhere did the same socially people's world shrunk as they're able to easily

00:01:58.080 visit with friends and family members regularly even if they're miles away horizons for people were

00:02:02.400 broadened the road trip was created families traveled across the nation and things like the highway

00:02:06.720 route 66 it became legendary a whole new cottage industry of motels and restaurants blossomed throughout

00:02:12.400 north america the personal automobile empowers the individual and authoritarians of course want to

00:02:18.320 take that empowerment away statists with a twisted vision of utopia got a taste of the world they want

00:02:24.400 to see during the lockdowns the last few years and they want more of it and you know what happened

00:02:28.240 well mobility disappeared while dependence on the state increased tourism evaporated while social

00:02:33.840 structures fell apart the other thing authoritarians noted was how the personal automobile can facilitate

00:02:39.680 citizen actions and protests the freedom convoy sure never would have happened if people didn't

00:02:44.320 have personal transportation would it those who want to end individualism for a socialized state

00:02:49.200 also realize just how docile and pliable most citizens can be if they're convinced of a public

00:02:53.920 emergency so putting that all together authoritarian collectivists have realized more than ever they

00:02:59.920 won't be able to achieve their envisioned utopia as long as individuals retain personal automobiles

00:03:04.880 or speech or firearms for that matter but that's fodder for another rent the public emergency

00:03:09.200 they're pushing is ostensibly climate change and the latest tool they plan to use is the 15-minute

00:03:13.520 city now the 15-minute city goes by many other names but the policies are always the same auto

00:03:18.480 owners are punished through taxes while auto infrastructure and roads are constantly removed

00:03:22.960 we have those bike lanes created in zones without any bicycle demand well the intention was to snarl

00:03:27.840 automotive traffic not to facilitate bikes they know nobody's going to ride them new high-density

00:03:32.080 developments are being designed without parking well they're starting to charge people for parking

00:03:35.840 in the streets in front of their own homes this is happening in cities such as oxford in the uk

00:03:40.000 they're imposing a program where a person will be fined if their vehicle enters the wrong zone or

00:03:44.000 leaves its own zone too many times permits will be issued by the state if an auto owner wants to

00:03:49.360 travel to certain areas now people keep fleeing further from city centers while municipal politicians

00:03:54.720 expand their metro regional plans to try and enforce different city limits outside of the city limits it's

00:03:59.760 a whack-a-mole game going on and the war is on and while free individuals will be the ultimate

00:04:04.240 victims they always are the target is the personal automobile that empowers them citizens need to

00:04:09.040 realize just how much they stand to lose if they no longer have that freedom to travel wherever they

00:04:13.280 like at will with a personal automobile they need to start paying attention to local politics and start

00:04:18.560 firing the mayors and councils who are pursuing this war on cars it's a subtle and incremental war but

00:04:23.280 it's a war nonetheless and unless folks wake up soon you're gonna lose that war guys you can't afford to

00:04:28.960 lose your cars it's much more important than just a little convenience canadian shooting sports

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Western Standard - February 15, 2023

The war on cars is a war on freedom

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