For americans a train is socialism. They need their V8s for crawling walking speed on the 4 lane highway burning a ton of fossil fuels. Actually the bigger the truck the better since it means freedom (or something). ;-)
"Americans tend to think that there's no way everyone would use trains unless forced to by lack of alternatives. This is projection because their experience with cars is exactly that: forced to by lack of alternatives. Do you think nobody in Japan drives? The country that gave us Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, etc etc, isn't without a domestic market lmao" (https://twitter.com/380kmh/status/879463196284858369)
It's simply that Americans do that with commercial air, not with rail.
If there's something more "socialistic" than being crammed cheek-to-jowl with other people in the back of an airplane, I don't know what it is.
Are you perhaps confusing the debate about American high-speed rail with the debate about American commuter rail? There are probably cultural reasons why Americans don't use public transportation as much as Europeans, but that's got nothing to do with HSR, which connects large cities, not suburbs.
Well, there's still the "people who can afford exorbitant prices can get much more legroom and service and be separated from those who can't" thing going on there
To be clear, though, I wasn't trying to give an opinion on whether I think taking the train or flying is better, just that I don't consider the experience of flying on an American airline to be "socialistic".
405 and 10 are a living hell; plenty of folks inching along them would rather not be.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-building-...
I don't match your insipid cultural stereotype at all.