> And it fit well into the Reagony zeitgeist of the time, of removing large-scale institutions of social support. Yes, if you don’t trust the social institutio

> And it fit well into the Reagony zeitgeist of the time, of removing large-scale institutions of social support. Yes, if you don’t trust the social institutions because they’ve visibly failed you don’t support them. More or less everyone who was voting in the 80s would know that they were living in a society that was much higher crime than it had been. This is after huge expansions in social programmes. To see the modern version of this calculus > low density is a bet on institutional failure https://twitter.com/RogueWPA/status/1530298502382661634?s=20&t=XkwPfc4hQxvD9G07OAsITQ https://twitter.com/RogueWPA/status/1530298502382661634?s=20... A comment on this tweet > The reason people don't care about about "walkable cities" and the urbanism push in general is because basically every public space in America ends up becoming the territory of mentally unstable and drug addicted vagrants. People don't feel safe in them. Its a hard truth. https://twitter.com/river_is_nice/status/1530182991766507520?s=20&t=XkwPfc4hQxvD9G07OAsITQ https://twitter.com/river_is_nice/status/1530182991766507520...