Mass Transit v. Class Transit in L.A.
29th September 2012
Steve Sailer explains it all to you.
As you can see from the map, you can now go anywhere … except for the huge chunk of the left side of the map that represents the Westside, which is where most of the money and good jobs are. In theory, Westside liberals are all in favor of rail transit, except in practice they don’t seem to either use it or want others using it near them.
Back in 1986, the feds were offering to help build a subway down Wilshire Blvd., but Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) blocked it, so the Purple Line peters out in Koreatown.
Mass transit is fine for the Little People, but we can’t have them riding though our neighborhoods.
The question with mass transit in Los Angeles is one of class transit. The poor have always ridden mass transit, and the poor we shall always have with us. But higher classes have always taken their cues from the top. In Los Angeles, the top people have always attempted to live as inaccessibly as possible. Last May, for instance, I looked up as President Obama’s Marine Corps One helicopter droned overhead on one stage of his labyrinthine passage to a fundraiser at George Clooney’s house in Fryman Canyon. Even if you are President, you can’t get to Clooney’s house easily.
That’s why God made SUVs, obviously.
If your fondest career hope is that Steven Spielberg’s personal assistant calls you up and invites you over to Steve’s house in Pacific Palisades to talk about that idea you have, you’d better have a car because you can’t get to his house any other way. And it better be a nice car to park in his curving driveway because you don’t want to look like some kind of a loser. And similar thinking goes for all the people hoping to get invited to the house of somebody who is hoping to get invited to Spielberg’s house, and on down the line.
Hey, one must have standards.