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Re:The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track by bassman9000 on Friday December 29, 2017 @09:25AM (#16029573)
_It’s difficult to envision a brighter future as the national GOP platform is so poisonous._

Irony defined in a single sentence.

_Those other guys, right? Not mine_

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Re:The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track by kazagistar on Friday December 29, 2017 @11:09AM (#16030128)
GP was specifically talking about NYC, so calling out the specific party in power there seemed relevant.
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Re:The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track by chimeracoder on Friday December 29, 2017 @01:13PM (#16030867)
> GP was specifically talking about NYC, so calling out the specific party in power there seemed relevant.

The original post really concerns the state government, not the city, and New York is definitely a two-party state. The Assembly is always controlled by Democrats, and the Senate is always controlled by the Republicans, even when Democrats win a majority of the seats.

Both parties benefit from this stasis, so they have no incentive to upset the balance.

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