The Culture Wars Continue

Apparently we've moved all the way from dudes kissing to abortion to, get this, mas transit, in spite of some useful information:

How do we know this is a cultural battle and not an economic one? Because transit spending is far more fiscally fair than spending on roads and highways. Transit riders subsidize roads to a greater degree than drivers subsidize transit. And cities, which are the chief engines behind the American economy, rely on buses and trains to function. “The economic future for states hinges largely on the performance of their metropolitan economies,” determined a recent Brookings Institution study.

So mass transit greatly subsidizes the roads "real" Americans drive on to prove they're not European, and its the cities that fuel the economy that "real Americans" like to fetishize as free-market capitalism.  Of course, we should get rid of them then, since obviously the Tea Party's reasons are purely about fiscal responsibility, and nothing else.