The truth? It stems from fear based mentality and personal insecurity. If you spend enough time evaluating the conservative mindset you come to realize it is grounded in fear and a disdain for oneself. They don’t want more cyclists because they think it’s an affront to them personally, as if they would need to start cycling to fit in.

I feel like this article is really missing out the part where oil interests are intentionally funding hatred of other modes of transportation. The PragerU video on “The War on Cars” is a good example. They are funded by oil companies, and this is public information that is easy to find. And they use that platform to prevent other modes of transportation from being safe or viable.

Because if they’re riding bikes they might not be buying $70k cars. How are the poor car companies going to afford to survive now? Someone think of the shareholders.

They’re afraid the lycra will awaken something in them

It’s pretty much just rural vs urban divide.

Bikes don’t work well in rural or suburban communities and so if you are for it, then you are one of the “urban liberals” and so I must oppose you at all costs.

Of course there are also urban conservatives that are against cycling but we have a name for those, idiots people with a financial interest in the current car centric infrastructure

I am so tired of the “everything I don’t like is woke” crowd. How long did it take for the “everything I don’t like is communist/socialist” crowd to be publicly ridiculed for having such juvenile worldviews?