American racism, same as it ever was.

Imagine it's a thousand years ago and some cardinal is hearing a dispute between some guild representative and some local lord or something.

The parties will invariably appeal to religion because that's that the listener cares about. But they don't "really" care. They care about their dispute. And they care about religion insofar as it lets them convince, often actively misleading along the way, the audience into agreeing with their framing.

That's essentially what 1) is. People are screeching about traffic because the municipality invariable has rules that make they the municipality have to care about that.

People can, and do, do the same thing with other pretexts like safety and the environment, whatever the audience cares about.

Change happens one way or another. If a place has 10 homes and 100 people want to live there, you can either 1) build more homes or 2) see the 10 wealthiest of those 100 people eventually get the housing in that place. Both are pretty significant change, just one is more visible because you can see the homes that got built, rather than the less wealthy people priced out.

This statement is accurate, too.