That's the problem with liberals. They believe a fair system is one where everyone is equal. The current system favors rural and small states at the expense of large population centers. For a so-called fair system, the needs of the large population centers outway the needs of the few who live in small or rural states.
Personally, I like the EC system becasue of this balance. Otherwise you would have a situation like Canada or the UK where all the political power is concentrated in a few, densly populated areas. All the laws and poplicies would be favoring those areas and totaly neglecting the oulying areas.
"(Liberals--Ialics mine) believe a fair system is one where everyone is equal."
I disagree. Only those who agree with them are equal, but there is a levelled equality in there, including an us vs. them socialistic arrangement: do what I tell you, as I know better than you.
The counterculturalists of the 60s were said to be even more power hungry than those who worked within the system. Sounds like today's Democratic Party to me.