Fast Trains Please

Lots of talk in the news lately about the high speed trains that are not really taking off.

Friends, have you ever been on a high speed train? Almost nothing feels better. You are going so fast, but you are on the ground. Sure, you could possibly hit a cow or a log, but chances are you won’t and you can get from city center to city center so fast and you can read a book!

Note: Right Wingers hate the idea of schedules and fewer cars. They fear that having to adhere to a train schedule will reduce their freedom. Plus, it’s a collective thing, these trains, and anything that smacks of being-with-others freaks them out. I gather this from what I can tell by reading about their distaste for these trains. They talk about the cost of the trains, too---but really, they talk about the cost of everything so nothing new here. (You don’t often hear them talk about the cost of defense, though.) It’s like having a father around who, no matter how great the future might possibly be according to optimistic views, just continually says no and continues his sour life of duty bound imprisonment that he thinks is something else.

If the United States is so great, and if France and China can do it, why can’t we?

Righties—listen up. We are being left behind. You are holding onto old ideas of freedom---Please let them go and join the rest of the world. You’re going to be fine. You can sit in a train with someone else. It will cost a whole load to build the whole thing, but won’t it be fun to have something TANGIBLE that we all did together?

Will ONE Right Wing person reading this, just ONE respond and say, “Sure, I’d love to jump on a high speed train. Let’s do it.”