DISCLAIMER:

 This rant contains high doses of common sense, moderate profanity, and a trace of uncut rage. If you're allergic to logic or get hives at the thought of a bridge being built in under 25 years, consult your nearest libertarian.

You ever try to build something in America?

I don’t mean “start a business” or “launch an app” — I mean physically build a goddamn thing. A train. A wind farm. A school. A factory. A house. Hell, a chicken coop if you’re not zoned for “fowl adjacency.”

Well, good luck, motherfucker.

You’re gonna need:

• 14 permits,
• 9 environmental reviews,
• 3 tribal consultations (for land 80 miles away),
• an economic impact statement,
• a parking study,
• and a fucking crystal ball to predict what some city planner with a clipboard and a superiority complex might decide 18 months from now.

By the time you break ground, your grandkids will be eligible for Medicare — assuming we haven’t means-tested that into oblivion.

And here’s the real kicker: nobody’s happy about it. Not the left. Not the right. Not the MAGA guy who just wants to slap a garage on his house, not the climate activist who wants to plug the country into sunlight, and not the union worker who’s ready to build the damn thing but is waiting on an endangered weed to be cataloged.

So here comes a little movement in the Democratic Party called “abundance.”

Not scarcity. Not austerity. Not “sorry, we can’t afford that” or “we’ll study it for 37 years and get back to you in the heat death of the universe.”

Nope — abundance.

As in:

• Let’s build more homes, so your rent doesn’t eat your life.
• Let’s build solar and nuclear and wind, so you’re not jerking off the oil industry for another 50 years.
• Let’s build trains and tunnels and highways faster than a Roman engineer on meth.
• Let’s build factories and chip fabs here, not in a country that hates our guts.
• Let’s build water infrastructure, so Flint doesn’t need to boil tap water until the sun explodes.

You know what this is?

It’s the MAGA dream without the fascism.

Because MAGA says “We need to bring jobs back and stop relying on other countries!”

Well, abundance says: Cool! Let’s fund it. Let’s build it. Let’s hire the guys to pour the goddamn concrete.

MAGA says “The government blocks everything and takes too long!”

Abundance says: Let’s rip up the red tape, throw the rubber stamps in the river, and get shovels in the ground before the decade is out.

And unlike the GOP’s version of “infrastructure week,” this shit actually exists. We’re talking:

• New NEPA streamlining laws,
• Biden-backed industrial policy,
• a climate bill that builds things,
• and liberal mayors who are suddenly quoting Adam Smith and zoning for density like it’s the new gospel.

So if you’re one of those MAGA-adjacent types who’s tired of gridlock and sick of excuses — guess what? The party that you think wants to ban your truck might be the only one ready to build you a road to drive it on.

You want a wall?

Fine. Let’s build 400,000 affordable homes instead — and hire every out-of-work welder in Arizona to do it.

You want freedom?

Freedom means having a house to live in, a job that matters, a train that shows up, and a power grid that doesn’t crap itself when Texas gets cold.

So yeah — call it “abundance.” Call it “America, but finally getting shit done.”

Call it what you want — just don’t call it “impossible.”

'Cause you know what?

It used to be possible.

It can be again.

And if we get out of our own goddamn way, it will be.