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Re:Chicago sold rights to 36k parking meters for $1.2B that ... by tptacek on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @11:20PM (#34991957)
The government that signed this deal was in fact a centrist government (the Richard M. Daley administration), if not a center-right one. Chicago is a Democratic stronghold, but that history dates back to the old 4-party system when we had liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats. Daley was one of the last vestiges of that system.
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Re:Chicago sold rights to 36k parking meters for $1.2B that ... by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @11:24PM (#34991989)
> the old 4-party system when we had liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats.

A two-party system with misalignment between the axis between the parties and the main axis of political variation (as often happens for a short time during realignment periods, and happened for an unusually extended time in the US from about 1932 to about 1994) is not a four party system, its just a two-party system with ideologically incoherent parties.

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Re:Chicago sold rights to 36k parking meters for $1.2B that ... by tptacek on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @11:25PM (#34992006)
Whatever you want to call it, "Democrat" did not mean "center-left" or "left" in the Daley party machine.
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