>Investing in large infrastructure projects is a political deadend in American democracy with term limits. Nonsense. We built the transcontinental railroad, th

>Investing in large infrastructure projects is a political deadend in American democracy with term limits. Nonsense. We built the transcontinental railroad, the interstate system, and the biggest dams and bridges in the world with term limits. The problem comes down to vested interests. Those things were done when the US still had free land. But in a democracy that respects individual rights and private property, you now end up with an inability to do things for the greater good like an autocratic China can still do on a whim.