I think it would probably take a disaster that affects a shedload of rich folks and poor folks en masse to help shift that blockage in the American psyche.
And as there's a couple of people in California I am rather fond of, it slipping into the sea after 'the big one' is not one I fancy seeing in my lifetime, but you get the point.

Sigh.

Back to writing polemics about bad starship design systems.