I understand it’s the only viable means of transortation. That is why it is an extremely bad idea to build more communities where a car is the only viable means of transportation.

If you transition to walkable/bikable communities now, you will be able to keep wealthier people in the car centric communities while allowing poorer people to use the newer more walking/biking centric communities. If you go “but cars are the only option because we are America and we can’t ever change our ways, anything that doesn’t immediately solve our issues in the short term is bad” you are going to end up with a fucking catastrophic poverty in 50 years.

You are the one ignoring reality. The reality is either America changes or there is a terrible future ahead. The idea we’re all going to have minimum wage workers using cars in low density suburbs is a fantasy. A dream. An illusion. It’s NEVER going to happen. If you continue building car centric communities, people will have to use them without cars, and it will be terrible, that’s just the reality.

You seem to be ignoring their words and also reality. Yes, there is not a good solution in America that doesn't involve a car. That's the problem they are trying to speak about. Applying short term bandaids to the problem will absolutely help the people current experiencing struggles but isn't going to make it any less important to solve this at a societal level.