The government transportation system of the relatively small city where the above pictures were taken is curious too. Pretty much anybody who wants a car there has one. The federally subsidized buses that flock to and scatter from the John J. Duncan, Jr. Bus Cathedral, belch around the streets of town mostly empty. One can read here what a bargain was had for only $29 Million.
I did not have to arrange an evacuation of the area for the "photo shoot" either, there just was not a soul around for socialized transport worship services.
Prior to FDR, there was not a lot of this nonsense going on, either monuments or government transport. Yes, there were monuments aplenty for the Founding Fathers, but not so much for sitting legislators. It seems to have begun picking up steam around Reconstruction and exploded with Senator Robert Byrd (D-KKK-WV), who was famous for this sort of thing. Now it has become commonplace across the Republic.
