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I suppose if you abstract a problem enough then any action is comparable to another, I can't say I see the usefulness it provides for answering rhetorical questions though.

The real plot twist when California finally manages to manifest its rail expansions will be that it was all just a plan to enable ultra long distance commutes from Oregon.

This seems mostly like handwaved logic though, why don't you consider liberalism a form of populism for example? After all, the political values you're describing arise by your own admission in areas of high density. How can something be populist and yet also targeted towards a population that you've defined as being the more minor or otherwise less dense? Not that it'd be correct either, but I could take the same elements you've used and describe Liberalism as xenophobic towards anything that doesn't share its values. I really am trying to see how you arrived at the point you did but it mostly just seems like you decided one side was wrong first and developed your explanation afterwards.

Changing incentives to manipulate social discourse is pretty much the definition of a ministry of truth. If the idea is that commercialism is bad at setting goalposts then surely a simpler solution would be a government run ad-free social media company moderated by constitutional restrictions on speech and nothing else.