Because American infrastructure is crumbling to the ground, authorities are just deflecting waiting for their turn to funel public funds into their pockets through foreign invasions/“cultural” programs.

Because here: short term profit > long term profit

This was my first response flying from Australia. In Australia everything is bright and colourful, i was slightly disappointed to see a lot of things unkempt.

It’s a second world country pretending to be a first world country

Depends on what country you are comparing it to and where in the USA you are

Where? Where is exactly are you talking about? The US is too big to generalize like this

It depends a lot on where in the US you are. Some cities are way more modern and up to date than others. But in general yes, infrastructure is just out of date here.

I guess this answers why Americans say how good Dublin Airport is 😆

We traded infrastructure for tax cuts for the wealthy in the 80s under the cruel and/or moronic leadership of Reagan. Just another way Boomers screwed over their children and grandchildren to give themselves some quick bennies. The thing that really infuriates me is that half the country thinks he was a god because of relentless Republican propaganda. The only thing the GOP is good at is creating false narratives.

I mean… where did you go?

I’ve been all over Europe and I find most places in Europe look older than the US. But there are plenty of places in the US that are old and outdated.

America needs leadership and it needs it now.

Because the ruling capitalist class is too busy filling their pockets to give a shit about the rest of us

Well you definitely aren’t wrong, but it’s a pretty simple situation.

American taxes seem to go everywhere except for upgrading critical infrastructure and then on the private sector side of things there are components like greed and economic factors like ROI that might prevent spending money on updating the buildings and architecture.

America seemed to build so much of our nations current physical appearance in the 50’s with what appears to have been a pure focus on greed and rapid expansionist policies.

The creation of the modern suburban scheme and inadequate city planning that have left us with the American version of villages (far different than the European towns and villages).

These days the only opportunity for American architecture to be done modern, shiny, and new is when sufficient population and demand bleed over into new areas and either allow for completely new buildings and businesses…or via growth and maturation in existing towns, cities, and villages that fosters sufficient investment to replace existing buildings with modern new ones, at a huge cost. You can find evidence all over in every state, both of the old ugly that you mentioned (sucks for all of us), and also some of the shiny new attractive modern buildings.

There’s also a third category where we have well preserved and intentionally old historic architecture, like New Orleans or Savannah, in both you can find great examples of updated modern /historical buildings, which is quite beautiful to see, right along side truly old historic stuff.

Because Reagan cut taxes to the rich and corporations right around then and it bankrupted the entire country.

It was all built in the 70s