"...Big Government Will Be Behind It." The January 2019 issue of Car and Driver revives a topic that is sure to only get larger and more intense over coming years - "The War on Cars." But, make no mistake, this topic seems like it has been one of the few constants in my life since I first became a wee-lad-enthusiast probably forty years ago. We've loved to hate cars for a long time now. But my first reflection while reading the article actually was some introspection of my own personal politics, namely one centered on independence, intelligence, and irreverence (the tagline of Car and Driver, incidentally) and whether my automotive passion (folly?) may have had an incipient role in shaping my worldview. Could it be that cars shape your politics? Are they that evil?