You can simply observe the various casualty-producing fireballs that emerged in 2010 and 2014–2015 from California’s mismaintained, fifty-year-old pipelines; the poisoned water in Flint, Newark, and elsewhere; sundry train derailments; and (per Joe Biden) “Third World” conditions prevailing in the cesspit that is LaGuardia Airport.5 While the Boomers grew up in a country that had the world’s greatest infrastructure, they now run a nation where infrastructure ranges from frustratingly backward to downright unsafe.
