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Also coming to other parts of the world, but without any new bridges.

Honestly, I would give up my right to vote or to speak against the government in exchange for free healthcare and cheap housing.

Or you could exercise your right to vote and speak against the government to get healthcare and cheap housing.

Yeah, that's been so effective!

The West also crushes dissent: try to organize a pro-Palestinian protest on a university campus and tell us how it goes. Crushing dissent is simply what governments do.

In the meantime I would like to see more Hoover Dams and Apollo programs here, with fewer tent cities and high-speed rail boondoggles. This will require a ruling class that 1) is competent and 2) cares for the people it governs.