I’m not in Canada, but a recent quote from one of our city councilmen when asked about improving rail service between cities was:

“You should just fly like adults”

Walking? Using public transit? That’s for poors.

The early conservative thinkers wrote about the French Revolutions and the rise of egalitarian thinking meant that something must take the place of monarchies to decide the social order. They preferred war as the measure of who should be the leaders, but that money and wealth could be a substitute. This led to Capitalist concepts infesting the right wing since monarchies are off the table.

Innuendo Studios has some great videos summarizing the alt right, conservatism, and Christian nationalism if you’re interested:

https://youtu.be/E4CI2vk3ugk

Regarding the mindset issue, it might be more baked into people than we’d like. Two great books on the topic are:

The Authoritarians by Altimeter

The Righteous Mind by Haidt

They also have videos summarizing the works in presentations and interviews. It seems that people end up having shadings of authoritarian drives, which means they’re happier living under someone’s commands and will work to preserve hierarchies despite the harm it causes others. Whether it is socialization or biological I don’t know.

To sum up: some people want to be ruled and they’re currently tearing the US down to let a king rule over the rubble.

Conservatism is, at its root, monarchist. The original writers and thinkers were focused on preserving authoritarian rule, then upon how to build and maintain hierarchies of society where people rule over others.

They’ve never been interested in democratic ideals unless it suits them to reinstate a dictatorship.

My city just wrings their hands, issues a “that sucks” statement, and generally builds weird bike lanes where we don’t need to really go. Lots of paint, but little safety.

“Fascists enable Christian Nationalist Karens to abuse coworkers on the government’s funds.”

Given the depth of the thinking here, and the desire to have guns in all situations, it’s only a matter of time until they add a 4th box with the “armed response unit” that’s only “supposed to be used in the most dire of situations”.

Anything other than dealing with the underlying problem means anything.

I’d rather living in a very dense area with walkable/trainable infrastructure than spend my whole live idling in a car and going nowhere.

Atlanta sounds like a livingspace hellscape.

Pedophiles covering for pedophiles. It’s the GOP way!