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I don't know if that's necessarily true though. America had pulled off plenty of ambitious long term things within the constraints of democracy - the Apollo pro

• Mediterraneo10 6y ago
  But none of those were very multidecade plans. The Apollo program was basically the 1960s before democratic pressures ended it (society no longer saw as much value in space after the first moon landings). The interstates were largely a mid-century project, and they have infamously been neglected since. The internet was only a public project very early on, and most of what we now know as the internet was a product of the private sector, etc.