[nixon_why69]

> The US is losing intellectually and technologically to countries like China. I call into question the general legitimacy of our academic and journalistic institutions.

China has tons of green energy, high speed rail and frequently extols the virtues of socialism.

[beeflet]

The success of chinese infrastructure validates my concern, which is with a specific faction of the american/western elite

[nixon_why69]

Bro, I sympathize a little bit but looking to illiterates who hate green energy is not the solution. We could probably agree that in China, engineers and scientists are more listened to but the solution for America is not "less reading".