The other day, Emily Kaiser of the Minneapolis City Pages blog forwarded an article she wrote as a response to an Anti-Strib blog article that infers that more bike commuters may mean a victory for Sen. John McCain’s campaign. Why, you might ask? Because more bike commuters on the streets mean more injuries and deaths, reducing the number of hardcore cyclists and potential Democratic voters who back Obama. Yeah, they’re serious. Oh, and they take a vicious stab at low-income cyclists, too. Classy folks over there…
(screenshot of the City Pages blog article, courtesy of City Pages)
Read the rest of Emily’s entry by clicking over to the City Pages blog, and from there follow the links to the original Anti-Strib article. Emily summed things up beautifully by stating:
We know blogging often hits pretty low, but this is really disheartening. In a week when many people across the Twin Cities are mourning the deaths of loved ones due to bike accidents, this isn’t the best time to turn their grief into a tirade against Democrats.
One ironic fact that really sticks out for me is that there are a number of studies that suggest the more bicyclists there are on the roads, the SAFER we’ll all be…safety in numbers, motorists more familiar with how to react when confronted with slower-moving two-wheeled vehicles, etc. But, as you may have realized, many conservatives rarely have time or patience for science.
What do you think about this?
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