But when somebody tries to push people along in a herd by using buzzwords, there's bound to be some opposition. Maybe that's because people who try that "bandwagon" appeal resort to it because they don't have good arguments.
I wouldn't change my mind easily about something I'd seriously reasoned out: if you've thought something through, you know why you believe as you do. But when somebody tries to tell me that everybody who counts thinks in a certain way, I'm not going to fall for it.
Maybe that's just a reaction against what they say and what they assume or maybe I've been prompted to finally thought it out for myself. When it comes to me you're probably not the best judge of which it is, anymore than I would be in your case.
But this is all getting way too "meta." When most of one's transportation is by car, one assumes that's all there is. But when you think about it, you may find that alternative means of transportation also have their uses and shouldn't be maligned or dismissed.
Ok I’ll concede the point.
But putting all that on the side for a moment, consider this.
Public transportation is not only a symbol of collectivism, but its collectivism incarnate.
Apart from the whether or not most conservatives are opposed to it, and apart from whether or not you are opposed to it, I can certainly understand why most conservatives and libertarians should be opposed to it.
You give up freedom of movement and surrender your independence to a large, dirty, slow-moving machine and you are inevitably thrown in with the unwashed masses, many of who are at the lower rung of the economic ladder. And many at the lower rung of the economic ladder are there for a reason.
Not only do I not like public transportation, I think anybody who does doesn’t get what’s inherently wrong with it on a basic level.