Re: U.S. Infrastructure

What you are up against is "Cognitive Dissonance".

This is a human condition in which the cognitive (conscious) brain that controls the input/output gets information that is at odds with what it has learned to be truth (reality) over an entire lifetime. It grounds its facts on titles and the letters before and after the name, the $ in the bank, and lineage, etc..

The subconscious brain, where you get your intuition and inherited genetic benefits from,  knows a different truth (reality) that has been learned over hundreds of generations. 

Unfortunately, the conscious brain controls the dialogue because loss of control is both frightening and dangerous.

Every morning I turn over a new leaf of my calendar and read the day's "Bushism".

Then I say "(choose a name) is the smartest, most powerful man in the (choose - school, city, country, world) - then I add - next to Putin, the Pope, Bin Laden, the Dalie Lama .........

Now use the words - Al Gore, value distortion disorder, environmental sustainability and cognitive dissonance in the same sentence and repeat it 5 times as fast as you can with a mouth full of peanuts.