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My point is that it's a meaningless argument that shouldn't even be a part of the American culture war to begin with. It's not going to fix anything. All American infrastructure is built around cars and now there's no going back.
Pro-walkable city people can't accept that you would have to practically demolish the core of any American city to make it truly walkable, and anti-Walkable city people refuse to admit that the car centric landscape America has created has a negative impact on the human psyche and quality of living. It's the textbook American brain disease of treating whichever side of the argument you agree with as the de facto truth.
If you're an American and you wish to live in a walkable city, the best and only solution is to leave America and move to one of the thousands of European cities that have existed since before cars were invented. That's significantly easier than petitioning your local government to put in a single bike 400 foot long bike lane on one street downtown that will ultimately be used for parking.