It’s rooted in the idea that there’s no partisan way to pave a street and that municipal government is fundamentally an issue of management quality, as though there was no political contention about what municipalities should be focusing on
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sure, but 1) i think that goes to the deeper issue of how our constitution doesn’t think of cities as playing a meaningful role, b) you gotta play in the system you have, with all the inherent roadblocks in place, not the one that you wished existed
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I don’t think we need to constitutionalize municipalities in order to treat them as having real politics (I’m not here to defend illegal caucus meetings of course)
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