Highway To Hell

The line between America's automobile obsession and its descent into fascistic individualism is getting easier and easier to draw.

America loves a car. Whether it’s the family taking a road trip down route 66, the blue-collar worker throwing lumber into his pickup, or the glamorous movie star letting her hair down in a convertible, the iconography of the American dream has always been inexorably linked to automobile ownership. For Americans, the car has offered the promise of a lif…