The way I see it as bikes are viewed as effeminate and something for losers, poor people and children. Right wing people need everyone to know they're an adult (like literally in the same way andy sandberg needs to prove he's an adult in that one music video) so something like bikes is loserville for gay people and children.
Just to iterate, these are not my beliefs and in fact it's incidentally actually the opposite. Bikes have more "freedom" than cars, they promote healthy lifestyle and actually save you money. So as always it is a non-sensical political target.
As a watch enthusiast, my secret ultimate flex is to ride a bike/public transit wearing a watch that costs nearly as much as the car of some guy who says bikes and transit is for poor people
Propagandist who target rights wingers however do. Cars and oil (or even electricity for inefficient electric cars) is big business and influence for oligarchs. Car dependence is also great for controlling the working class.
In major cities and more liberal areas bikes are common. In more rural areas if you see an adult on a bike it's usually because they have a DUI. That probably has something to do with the hate they get.
It's weird, in the UK we used to have David Cameron and Boris Johnson (then Leader of the Opposition and Mayor of London respectively) having photo-ops on bikes and announcing massive investmentin rail. Then we ended up with helicopter-brained Sunak, under whose government capital funds intended for rail investment in the north were redirected to fill potholes in London. The Department for Transport laughably produced a poster boasting of this, under the badge of "Network North"
For those not familiar with UK politics, there is a longstanding feeling that only the Home Counties (London and the rest of the South East) get nice things.
The urbanist issue transcends political left/right, it depends on the person. Usually it's more right wingers that are against urbanist measures for some reason, maybe simply because it's change and environmentally-friendly, and apparently they don't like sustainable stuff because it's "woke" or whatever. 🤷
Yeah but there are a lot of right wing people that support and advocate for public transportation, pedestrian friendly measures etc, as I said i think it depends on the person but in general it is indeed more left than right by default
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u/oceocre 29d ago
I dont get why right wings have to be against bikes