We went to the moon to show military might, and beat the USSR. Having done so, no interest in more?

We've never been back since. A moonbase is the obvious place to experiment, develop and benefit from 1/6th gravity as a staging post to Mars. We should have been there for the last 40 years.

It saddens me we're so short sighted. No votes in it?

Could we even organise a global effort? The governments would spend decades arguing over who got to make which bit.

I'm much more hopeful of the private efforts to be truthful.