Obligatory "why don't kids go outside anymore".

I'll take this one step further: The city-imposed design and facade mandates are often created based on community engagement processes. So the same people who contributed to these standards might be the ones who later complain about new projects looking ugly

We made it illegal to build neighborhoods like this and wonder why people don’t like the look of new apartment buildings

Conspiracy theories are, when they aren’t just variations on antisemitism, a comforting story to tell yourself because you’re afraid of living in a chaotic, poorly managed world

the thing about cars is people have no respect for what cars can actually do in terms of damage, and you’ll see this even among people who rightly get mad about lack of gun control

Also there are pro-social housing options that give people more privacy while allowing them to live in physical proximity to friends and family. ADUs, cottage courts, pedestrianized rowhouse streets, bungalow courts, and courtyard perimeter blocks all strike this balance.

The reason we're in this "losing any election can be disastrous" situation is OVERWHELMINGLY because the other side has long since succumbed to hateful madness. That is just a MUCH larger fact about our political reality than literally anything else. That's really what you've gotta focus on, here.

There's really no way to protect the people from themselves in a democracy, tbh

There's problems in the GOP, the media, and the Democratic establishment (in that order), but the fundamental problem is the moral rot in a citizenry that doesn't immediately reject a candidate like Trump