09-15-2022, 02:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-15-2022, 02:47 AM by danbrotherston.)
(09-14-2022, 09:55 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(09-14-2022, 07:23 PM)ac3r Wrote: Yeah that's dreaming...at least in our political landscape. If this was somewhere like China? Sure, they'd appropriate whatever the hell they wanted and we'd already have high speed rail all across the country. But this is a neoliberal capitalist democracy. Things happen sssssllllllllloooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwlllllllyyyyyy.
Yes, they do happen slowly. But given the choice between the two systems ...
I'm certainly not going to advocate for a Chinese style authoritarian government here...
But there are more than two choices...and our government is far from an example of things working well---even from a democracy standpoint.