I mean, that really is part of this--that this is the history of machine politics & municipal politics in the US and there is a sense that people who claimed a bigger piece of the pie that way in multiple eras then act all prim and proper about that now and demand everybody play by a different rulebook whereas communities that had no access to machine politics (or were just captured constituencies) were the ones that got bulldozed for highways, got trash incinerators built next to schools, etc.
Adams: better or worse than Lincoln Steffens' Martin Lomasney?
I mean, that really is part of this--that this is the history of machine politics & municipal politics in the US and there is a sense that people who claimed a bigger piece of the pie that way in multiple eras then act all prim and proper about that now and demand everybody play by a different rulebook whereas communities that had no access to machine politics (or were just captured constituencies) were the ones that got bulldozed for highways, got trash incinerators built next to schools, etc.