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Originally Posted by ubertuber
What does "pollyanish" mean?
At first I thought you might be implying that dc_dux was somehow unrealistically naive. But then I figured that couldn't be it, since dc has, you know, actual experience working in this area. Somehow, I doubt his views on the way things work are actually all that unrealistic.
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He seemed to suggest among other things in other threads that Chicago during the 60's-80's did not work with the coruption and cronyism and seemed to imply things are different in Washington. Call it what you will, you know my opinion.
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You dont really want to visit DC...Its not Chicago of the 60s-80s....and it would destroy all of your political fantasies about how federal agencies/executive branch and Congress (that you define and suggest should act as one "living being") actually works.
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