Some parts of America still work.

You could be forgiven for forgetting that, given how many parts don’t.  The government’s Covid response was a debacle, our President is cognitively-challenged, Congress seems incapable of doing anything except spending money, and most of the corporate world seems clueless.  (Google’s Gemini AI even responded to requests to produce images of Vikings, Nazi soldiers, and antebellum plantation owners by producing images of black people in the appropriate costume, apparently the result of too much “diversity” programming.)  It takes forever to build a road or a bridge, Boeing aircraft are falling apart left and right, and websites seem glitchier and harder to use than they were ten years ago.

But some parts of America work amazingly well.  We saw one of them last week, when Intuitive Machines, a private company, landed the first American spacecraft on the Moon in over 50 years.