If only every city and town had at least one person motivated to make videos like this one, about Warwick potholes:

My only suggestion would be to make the comparison between the reduced funding for infrastructure and the city’s exploding employee benefits budget earlier in the video and more frequently.  That really is a core reality that Rhode Islanders need to learn.

Government does everything backwards.  Officials negotiating contracts seem to start with what employees deserve.  Budgets are built based on what the government says it needs.  The money has to come from somewhere, of course, and taxpayers revolt if it all comes from them.  So… potholes.

Another core reality that Rhode Islanders need to learn is that a healthier two-party system — with two parties that actually are different, not just shades of the same ideology — would go a long way toward ensuring that every city and town (and the state) had an opposition with incentive to shine a light on what the people in power are doing badly, and voters would have an option upon discovery of those problems.