The point of the article is that "the car-centric transportation system now found throughout the U.S. can be traced in part to a deliberate revolution led by a

The point of the article is that "the car-centric transportation system now found throughout the U.S. can be traced in part to a deliberate revolution led by a relatively small group of people with a personal stake in the automotive sector ... car culture was largely forced on an unwilling public by car dealers, manufacturers, automotive clubs, and others who banded together to promote automobile use, calling themselves “motordom.”" If that wasn't authoritarian "re-education" to make choices that /motordom/ considered better, then what was it?