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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    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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      210 months ago

      Even ignoring how your vote doesn’t matter if it’s not a swing state, your vote is also worth many times more or less both for legislators and the president depending on which state you live in. That’s not a democracy. In order for weighted votes to count as a democracy, you would also have to count much more strongly weighted votes, like if for example, billionaires’ votes were worth a million times that of the average Joe.

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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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          210 months ago

          I feel like you skimmed my message instead of actually reading it, so I’ll give you a chance to reread it.

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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.