re: #255 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con

When the Constitution was written, the authors believed that the house would have people who were intent on supporting their own state and district, while the senate would be able to look beyond their states to consider the nation as a whole. Sometimes it worked that way….

Which is kind of odd because the house is the bit that’s fairly democratic. The senate and, more notoriously the EC, are the bits that mean that people who live in some states get a bigger say, and therefore more attention from politicians, than others.