Why You Should Oppose Public Transportation

Even the cheap fares will eventually be more than we want to pay

Ask most people on the broad Right what they think about public transportation and they'd probably tell you that they don't like it. And it's not just because of the smell and the gum stuck to the seats. Most of us, deep down inside, at least in some subconscious way, feel that mass public transportation is just a little bit communist.

After all, we on the Right like our freedom. Now at this point, some readers might be thinking, “Whoa Theophilus, aren’t you a monarchist?? Doesn’t that mean you want some kind of totalitarian state where all of our lives are regimented by some king??” Most definitely not, and the history of monarchy in the western world (at least), and especially the Anglo-Saxon world, ought to put that objection to rest. Strong and unitary government is certainly not the same thing as totalitarianism or arbitrary despotism. Indeed, political liberty in the sense of republican-democratic forms is not actually necessary for economic prosperity or social benevolence. In fact, democratic forms themselves can just as easily lend themselves to the totalisation of sociopolitical life as much as an oriental despotism would. There is absolutely no reason why right-wing systems of authority should be assumed to lend themselves to excessive social controls, and in most western experience with monarchy they actually have not. As long as you’re not a communist subversive or weirdo pervert of some kind, you’re pretty much going to be left alone to live as you like. If you’re the kind of person who is comfortable under a system that maintains right order, you’re most likely the kind of person who values your personal liberty and who will enjoy it largely unhindered. Part of that involves your freedom of movement, something which we on the Right have traditionally valued.

This is probably much of the reason why we're in love with the automobile. With the wide-open spaces and abundant road system we enjoy in America, most Rightists would never dream of trying to force everyone to use an archaic, 19th century technology like trains now that we don't have to. The automobile is a symbol of freedom. You can go wherever there's a road, no matter how big or small, when you're in an automobile. You're not boxed in with dozens of other people on a line that goes one place only. This is why we generally tend to view air travel as a necessary evil — if somebody invented a car that could get us from Boston to Los Angeles in six hours for a business meeting, we'd probably opt for that instead of getting groped by your friendly neighborhood TSA agent.

Progressive leftists know all of this. They know that the freedom to travel where we want, when we want, how we want, is a psychological buttress to our sense of liberty. Pod-people stay put and go where they're told. Free men hop into their '67 Mustang and lay rubber in front of a Dairy Queen three towns over from their own.

Hence, in their never-ending quest to gain total control over our lives, the Left has been putting into play a number of plans designed to limit our freedom of travel.

In case you weren’t aware, one of the purposes served by forcing gasoline prices sky-high is to make private automobile travel prohibitively expensive for more and more people. This has been a major thrust in the "global warming" nonsense that the Left has pushed as well — cars supposedly account for the lion's share of carbon dioxide emissions (even though they actually don’t), so their use needs to be reduced. Way back in the Obama administration, somebody in the Congressional Budget Office accidentally let the cat out of the bag that it would be a great, absolutely smashing, idea to tax Americans for each mile they drive. Every so often the idea gets resurrected in the media, but thankfully doesn’t seem to have gotten much traction yet. Of course, this is essentially what already happens to us anywise, since we have to pay taxes on each gallon we buy to drive those miles. Presumably, this mileage tax would be added on top of the gas taxes already in place.

The whole point to this is not to "stop global warming." Let's face it, those in the know at the top of the progressive hierarchy know that global warming is a hoax. They know it's just prole-feed for the useful idiots in their own ranks and for the easily swayable among the public at-large. The point to inducing people to stop driving cars is not to save the earth, but to reduce the freedom of movement that people have. Take away cars and you take away the ability of most people to travel for pleasure. You take away their means of conveniently conducting much of their commerce and other business. You would prevent them from being able to have forest hideaways and beach homes. In short, you prevent the middle and working classes from having the same things that the rich can have, you keep them from having lifestyles that even begin to approach the type, if not the extent, of the global transnational elite. Most of all, you would take away that psychological sense of freedom that the ability to move about unhindered gives to people. It’s about forcing us all into the Agenda 2030 “You’ll own nothing and be happy” scenarios that the globalist world-planners have prepared for us.

More recently, and more concretely, is the Congressional effort (which ineffectual Republicans failed to stop) that would direct automobile manufacturers to include a “kill switch” into all vehicles made after 2026, a device which would allow authorities to shut down a vehicle remotely. Ostensibly, the reason would be if the driver is acting like he or she is driving while impaired (i.e. it’s FoR yoUr SaFeTy!!1!). Of course, we know the actual reason is to provide bureaucrats and functionaries in the managerial state the means to freeze the movement of dissidents and others who run afoul of the Regime’s dictates. Don’t think they’d do that? Well, these are the same people who just put the infant son of a J6 defendant on the no-fly terrorist watch list.

So, what would have to replace private automobile travel, once nobody but the super-rich will be allowed it? Public mass transportation, of course. Buses, light rail, subways. This has already largely happened to those poor unfortunates who dwell within our large cities and for whom the lack of parking, expensive personal property taxes, and archaic road systems have already removed the automobile from being a viable alternative. The lefties work to extend this system even to places, such as smaller cities, the suburbs, and even the exurbs, where such systems normally would not be "needed" or desired. Make parking in the city so scarce as to be impossible to find, or so expensive that you'd rather take the bus. Provide "free" bus service (paid for by the taxes of productive, automobile-driving people, of course) to encourage people to stop polluting. In several places, the lefties keep trying to push their light rail boondoggles so that the system can be extended between cities — no more need to have people killing Mother Gaia with highway driving. These public systems are there to take up the slack once private transportation is turned into road pizza.

So how does this affect our freedom? Well, it's because of the fact that mass transportation is inherently restrictive in its approach to people delivery. A bus route can't include every single possible place that people might want to get on or off the bus. It only follows certain routes. Same with AmTrak, with light rail, subways, etc. It's easier, then, to control the access which people have to transportation.

To see this, we need only look at what the government has done to air travel in this country. You cannot get onto a commercial airplane without going through an intrusive TSA security checkpoint. Consider then, the effect of the "no fly" list, which at last count had over a million names on it — the large majority of them people who have no connection to Islamic terrorism. Think about that for a minute. That means that one out of every three hundred persons in this country are forcibly disallowed from conducting a private commercial transaction with an airline for transportation by their own government, mostly for spurious reasons. Consider this, then, in light of the rumblings from certain government officials (such as Senator Chuck Schumer, D-NY), to extend the TSA "security" system to Amtrak and to commercial bus lines. Given the broad, general language that "authorizes" the TSA to exist and function, how long before these extensions become a reality and are then extended further to city buses, light rail, subways, and the rest? After all, the TSA has been given jurisdiction over pretty much all transportation in the country, should it decide to use it. Think this is far-fetched? I don't. There are some in government who've already floated these very ideas.

Can you imagine finding yourself on the "do not ride/fly" list and having no access to even local mass transportation, much less intercity and interstate travel, especially after you've already been squeezed out of being able to afford driving your car for any distance? Even the threat of that would be a powerful inducement for many people to begin to adopt the psychology of the serf, which is exactly what the Left wants. Be a good boy. Don't express those bad ideas that we don't like and will therefore brand as "terroristic," earning you a spot on "The List." It's not inconceivable that to even use these systems, you'd have to be issued an approved pass, as much an approval of your political and social docility as anything else.

After all, "your papers, please" has been one of the watchwords of communists throughout history.

Think this all would never happen? Don't put anything past the Left in this country. Remember — when we're talking about the Left, we're talking about sociopaths who do everything they do for the purpose of increasing their own power and control over us. Even something as seemingly innocent as public transportation will be procedurally manipulated into supporting the Left's ulterior purposes for it. Make cars so expensive and bothersome that people will look for other means of travel. Provide them those means but make these modes of transportation have easy control points. Use those control points to threaten the economic and social livelihood of those forced to use them. You know, it's so crazy, it just might work.

What can we do? Well, the recent history of democracy has shown that the idea of “voting our way out of this” is going to be dicey, at best. You can elect a Congress full of Republicans and just enough of them will still work with Democrats to advance the Regime’s globalist agenda. At some point, though, people who do love their people and who do hold offices with the appropriate powers are going to need to start using that power to subvert and undermine the Regime’s actions (which, admittedly, should get easier to do moving forward as collapse and decentralisation continue to advance). And what they’re going to need to do is essentially the opposite of all the stuff going on right now:

• Drill for oil and increase our own domestic oil supply.

• Oppose all mileage or similar taxes.

• Oppose boondogglish mass transit systems like the light rails.

• Use transportation funds to modernize road systems to better handle traffic volume and flow.

• Oppose the subsidy of public transportation by taxes levied on automobiles, which serve as a transportational "wealth redistribution" scheme.

• Oppose the extension of TSA authority over other modes of travel, and even roll back TSA's control over air travel.
  

In short, basically just do the things that will make transportation more, rather than less, useful for providing freedom of movement. Eventually, these may require the locals to just start ignoring or merely paying lip service to federal “mandates” - something which state assertions of authority will only make easier moving forward. Regardless, freedom of movement is one of those things that people may not think about very often and which doesn’t garner the attention that guns or free speech do, but which is nevertheless very important. It’s vital enough that even widespread civil disobedience - manually disabling twenty million kill switches might do the trick - ought to be on the table. As the erosion of effective federal control accelerates, the Right needs to be ready to step into the vacuum to assure that whatever follows affirms our ability to travel as we like.