Our country once had the world's leading
infrastructure, thanks to Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Now we
drive over pitted roadways and collapsing bridges and rickety railroad tracks
that won't support fast trains, forcing goods to travel via truck when that's
much less cost-effective and much more polluting. Our electrical grid is one
good solar mass ejection from collapsing in a heap, we don't have a national
cellphone standard and our broadband support is the worst among all rich
countries.
Yet when Democrats say we have to invest in our
infrastructure so our businesses can keep up with the rest of the world, and it
has to be done by government to avoid piecemeal balkanization of all these
things, all Republicans hear
is
socialismsocialismsocialismsocialismsocialsimsocialismsocialism
...and
their brains freeze like an epileptic's on seeing strobe lights flashing.
They're
so far over the edge that they can't face the fact that no, they didn't "build
it." They used it, like everyone else uses "it." They didn't build the roads and
power grids and bridges and dams and everything else a civilization
needs.
Do they want us to go back to homesteading like farmers in
Little House on the Prarie?
How did the Republicans walk away from
conservatism and become something very close to anarchists?
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