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So I was just in Vienna with my husband, Terry, and we were running around town and having a really great time.

And there's this amazing system of trams that go all over the city of Vienna.

Trams and in Ubon, they have a subway.

But they have these trams that just can take you anywhere and everywhere that you need to go. There's two things I want to share with you about the trams. First, everywhere we went, Terry called them trammies. Like, we're going to jump on a trammie. And I kept worried that we would be glittered by transportation activists if he kept that up. The second thing was how inexpensive riding the trams there is.

It's 365 euros to buy a year-long pass to ride the trams and the Ubon and the Espan

and the regional railroad system all over Vienna.

That's a buck a day.

Here in Seattle, it costs 250 or 275 to ride

the bus one way. So five or six bucks to go round trip on the bus in a day. In Vienna and

Austria, this beautiful system of trams and Ubonns, anywhere you want to go all over the region, a buck a day, basically, a euro a day.

And it is this way because socialism, also because direct democracy, because one man, one vote,

because they don't have really an anti-democratic system in the ways that we do where, for instance, we have this

thing called the Senate, where every state gets two senators, California, which has 40 million

residents, 40 million citizens in California, two senators, South Dakota, 850,000 residents,

two senators, just the same as California.

The Senate is really this anti-democratic institution that gives small states and rural voters a bigger say in the direction of the country and our policies than they deserve than any sort of representative democracy would normally and typically allow.

And this really does distort American politics in huge and consequential ways.

We don't really have an urban party, right?

The Democrats should be the party of urban America.

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