And so my complaint with people like Mx Marx isn't that they don't want to drive, its that they don't think anybody else should want to drive either.
Right. Cars didn't become popular because some author or some politician designed a car society, it happened because people started buying cars because they liked them better than horse and buggy.
If people want to live in the city and not use cars they can do that, if they want to live suburban or rural and use cars they can choose that too.