You Didn't Build That

Look, I realise this is an oddly specific gripe but I do feel it strongly whenever I see a highway or a public building and the name of a politician (often a Mayor, sometimes a Governor or President) on it: this just shouldn't be allowed. The politician did not pay for it, the public did. And it's naked electioneering on behalf of the incumbent, trying to get voters to associate the incumbent's name with public spending, which is unfair on the non-incumbents who will sooner or later be trying to unseat her. It's nakedly against the spirit of liberal democracy, I don't know where it started and I don't know why we put up with it.