>The American system is more about representing the preferences of communities than directly those of individuals. And by "communities" we mean "lines drawn on

>The American system is more about representing the preferences of communities than directly those of individuals. And by "communities" we mean "lines drawn on the maps decades to centuries ago". For example, New York City has one municipality with five boroughs, while the Boston metro area splits its urban core into five different municipalities (even though people in each commute to all the others). And the Bay Area in California? Well, let's not talk about the idiocies imposed by municipal boundaries in the Bay Area... Like the Atherton Caltrain chauvinism...