[Cincinatus]

As the world's largest public-works project, the Interstate fully transformed Americans into a car-centric, oil-guzzling, and pollution-spewing people.

And created unprecedented personal freedom of movement and wealth.

But the hoi polloi aren't supposed to have such; they should just humbly submit to the ideas and notions of their betters, like editorial writers.

[Ignatz]

"But the hoi polloi... "
(hoi means "the", thus "the hoi polloi" means "the the polloi").

-Iggy