If you're going to disagree, can you do us all a favor by not misrepresenting my words?

> Asking why we don't have a high speed cross country railroad

I asked where the high speed rail is, because parent claimed China is building out infrastructure "we built a 100 years ago" - which is patently untrue. I even quoted parent, so you can't have missed that.

> damningly, your closing thought being whether other people think "the west will prevail"

Bravo! That's a tabloid-worthy recontextualization hit-job - you cut off the part I considered so important I originally added emphasis to it, and added your commentary to give my surviving words an unflattering meaning of your choosing that was never there. I said "...an almost religious belief that the west will prevail because it's the west"

A good day to you.