High-speed rail may finally be built in the US, starting with a line from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.

While the US has done almost nothing for decades, China has covered the whole country with high-speed train lines. Why has the US failed to do this? I conjecture that in the US, businesses are too powerful. So powerful that they can stop the US government from doing important things, such as building train lines.

By contrast, in China the government is more powerful than any combination of businesses. So if the Chinese government decides to build the railroad equivalent of the interstate highway system, and boost the country's industrial capacity, it can go ahead and do that.

China is using that boost in industrial capacity to build up its armed forces so it can conquer Taiwan and turn it into hellish tyranny. Meanwhile, the US can barely afford to defend Ukraine. And since business orders the US government to crush the poor, the poor turn towards fascism.