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On the contrary, I am getting a lot of stuff I do not consent to.

Well you're always free to leave. But you don't. And you keep on not voting, and then wonder why your government doesn't represent you. And you know, eventually on that track, you're no longer free to leave either.

But you're indignation shall not brook political engagement! So that's...something.

> And you keep on not voting, and then wonder why your government doesn't represent you.

Yet everyone else does vote and then wonders why their government doesn't represent them. What exactly makes that a better choice?

His implicit assumption is that the act of me voting increases the extent to which government represents me enough to justify the time and effort spent voting (not to mention researching candidates and options). I think that assumption is demonstrably false.

I am not consoled by the fact that I am free to leave my own property.

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