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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2025
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Electric cars, high speed rail, efficient cities, cheap energy, it's almost like all of these have been actively pushed against by some large industry
Seems to me the US has lost every single race it has competed in.
Well we've recently entered the race to the bottom category, we'll see how that one goes
More seriously, the US did lead the way in various ways for a while for the time. Just gotta ignore the racism and colonialism. Unfortunately many innovations turned out to be the limit of American imagination and any attempt to continue to improve and grow is now met with hostility.
It's probably at least somewhat a product of years of corporate and conservative interests marketing a return to an imagined golden age for economic and political gain. No room for new things in the fantasy of the '50s, just easy money, grass suburbs, giant cars, and unconcerned white people as far as the eye can see.