(Read that literally or politically, however you choose, but I don’t relish a “it’s completely out of control; all we can do is pray for rain or the winds to shift and hope it burns itself out while sparing 90% of the people...” scenario on a world scale, whether in politics or wild-fires.)
By the time you get to a group of citizens the size of San Francisco or Los Angeles, are you really going to benefit from me weighing in from Massachusetts, Anna weighing in from Rotterdam, or Jiang from Shanghai on what crime or homeless problems the city is facing or how tall buildings should be allowed to be in some part of the city? That’s not just a few wackos running for a local dog catcher position.
If I've somehow left that impression, I wish to correct it.