I've spent large amounts of time in other countries. America is an absolute embarrassment.
There are countries you can go where it feels like the government actually cares about trying to help people have a better life. There are countries where infrastructure projects get completed. There are countries where infrastructure isn't just completed, it's good. There are countries where the administrative overhead of health care is 2% instead of (a likely underestimated) 25%.
You can't fix infrastructure policy, or any other policy, in America without first fixing campaign finance reform.
As long as senators and justices can be openly bought and sold there is no hope of getting responsible leadership that acts in the interests of citizens.
Very good video explaining the core issue of American politics by Harvard Law professor and founder of creative commons Lawrence Lessig-- Our democracy no longer represents the people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJy8vTu66tE
Yep. America has the simultaneous problems of being both too spread out and too busy/dense in most areas without sufficient public transport. There has been a widespread, long-term lack of planning to arrange smaller residential areas closer to commercial and industrial areas. It's largely dependent on long commutes and automobile commutes, which is unnecessarily expensive and wasteful.