The Pennsylvania Democrat recalled his time serving as a Hillary Clinton surrogate in 2016, even after he supported Bernie Sanders in the primary.

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      I agree with your first two sentences and then the train just jumps the tracks and plummets down a ravine. There’s all kinds of ways who you vote for matters. Complete disengagement like what you’re suggesting puts us on the fast track to fascism and nihilism.

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      There are many types of democracies, and we live in a representative democracy which is very much a democracy.

      There is exactly 1 direct democracy on the planet. Costa Rica is close but not quite.

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          That’s like saying your vote doesn’t matter if you have a minority opinion so democracy doesn’t exist at all. It’s a bullshit line of reasoning.

          Also your vote is extremely important at the local level. Our housing crisis is entirely a local voting issue.

          A billionaires vote counts for exactly the same as yours. Sorry to break your bubble.

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              No your post is just nonsense people repeat as part of the general American zeitgeist of “can’t trust government.” It has no basis in reality.