Make American TRAINS again

For a nation to be truly "great" it must do a wide variety of specific, concrete, measurable and generally difficult tasks. Empty political promises of "greatness" are tools of emotional manipulation

Perspective: Today’s post is another tangent (not departure) from the core topics of Antiviral Nutrition, Microbiome+Dysbiosis, and Functional Medicine Inflammology that are discussed in other posts and videos; see other videos/PDFs on vitamin D, acetylcysteine/NAC, quick clinical consults, and the series on Health Homework.

If you want to see the former greatness of American trains and train hotels, then you have to go to Chattanooga Tennessee where you will find the old history of the American train system rusting away, not unlike dinosaur bones slowly disintegrating in a museum.

In contrast, the European system of trains is world-famous for its cleanliness and punctuality. We used the national and international train system in Spain, France, Belgium, and Holland on a regular basis when we lived in Europe.

In fact, the photo of us in Paris from 2017 was from a spontaneous trip that we took between Barcelona Spain, Paris France, and Amsterdam Holland with essentially zero planning.

“Make American TRAINS again” = a concrete and defined and measureable goal

America should make public transport and public infrastructure a priority again to facilitate in-country tourism, stimulate local economies, and stimulate industry; this simple goal would create millions of jobs directly and indirectly.

“Make America great again” = a meaningless political slogan that allows the user to be unaccountable and the citizen to be carried away by their own personal fantasies

For a nation to be truly "great", it must do a wide variety of specific, concrete, measurable and generally difficult "great" tasks.

The best political slogans let your imagination run pants-less while providing the politician the escape of zero accountability; next time someone offers to make your life or country “great” or “great again” be sure to ask them about the specific goals, strategies, tactics, accountabilities and metrics that will be employed.

“Great” is vague and meaningless except as a purely emotional expression; when used as a promise, “great” is purely a manipulative tool.

“Make American TRAINS again” = a concrete and defined and measureable goal

Some of the components, all of which are industries that give employment to hundreds of thousands of citizens and tax income to local and national treasuries:

1. Building the trains = technology and engineering

2. Decorating the trains = craftsmanship in design and construction

3. Building the infrastructure of tracks, tunnels, and bridges = hundreds of thousands of jobs

4. Construction of train stations…

5. Painting and maintenance of all this infrastructure…

6. Coordination of a national power grid …. instead of the privatized for-profit utility mess that plagues most of America

7. Stimulation of new local economies as Americans are free to travel locally and easily to see and stimulate the smaller cities of their country…

European train hotels are clean, reasonably comfortable, and equipped with private bathrooms, showers, clean towels, bathroom/shower kits, tooth brush and toothpaste, private television and free movies.

Typically, we would take one trip every 4-8 weeks, arriving to the train station around 8pm, boarding the train and entering our room around 9pm, then my girlfriend (now wife) would watch a movie while I would read and then sleep; in the morning, I’d shower on the train and we’d have a cup of coffee at the on-train restaurant before arriving at our destination to start the day.

American train hotels essentially do not exist on a nationwide basis; a few relics can be found rusting away in Chattanooga Tennessee.

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