Sitting by passively has worked so well - oh wait, no - it hasn’t.
The “stepping up” creating more problems than it solves is part of the point. The people responsible for fixing the potholes (or financing those fixes) need to get off the pot, or it will be even harder to accomplish. The attitude right now is that they can just leave potholes for weeks or months. No - they can’t. Not an option.
As for the ad-hominem - you can do better. My attitude is that if the authorities don’t take care of things, it’s not unreasonable to fix them rather than sit passive, and you’re not supposed to think that’s better. It’s absolutely worse than the government doing the right thing. But without something driving them to do better - historically, they won’t bother.
If it helps - don’t think of it as a repair. Think of it as a protest.
