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Surprisingly, this conversation is not totally out topic.

You can try to convince yourself that an elected administration has no actual power to do anything because of $reason (law, how government works, searching to compromise, not antagonizing people, etc), but this exercise in self delusion is not very convincing when the current administration, clearly, do not look like they suffer from the same paralysis.

Like you can try to delude yourself that today is impossible to build great infrastructure because of regulations, maintenance costs, respect for environment, individual freedoms, etc, and Bam! Another country just build it, compliant with the state of the art engineering and respectful of environment without slavery etc. Like they party on your rain.