It's that foot dragging whiners have outsized power and can gum up any project they want in the courts and tack on higher price tags

All you need is a few people who don't like it for any reason whatsoever and the other 99.99% of people who want it ... They no longer get a voice.

Only the blockers, the nimbys, the ideological naysayers, they get all the power - the podium, the press, and the ear of the court.

The yes people have effectively Zero political power

That's the American difference: we grant whiners sainthood