Every time I visit the many state parks around the country that still rely on infrastructure built back in the 1930s by the CCC and the WPA, it makes me a bit sad.

And when I drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway, one of the most beautiful stretches of road in the world, I marvel that something like this was ever built because nothing remotely like it would be even attempted today.

Amazing what our forebears with fewer resources and with worse technology were able to achieve that we now are utterly incapable of contemplating, much less constructing from nothing.

Our culture tells us we can’t do things that are in fact easily possible (such as single payer), and we just believe it, no questions asked.