You talk about a 'system'. The system is in the mirrors, yours and mine. We are it. American tradition is that one person makes a difference, which seems pushed aside now by the fetishization of despair and doom.

Also, it's about far more than voting. Voting is done every once in awhile. Citizenship is every day. Powers-that-be are watching and investing enormous energy in manipulating public opinion - for a reason. It's powerful. Today is the day to act.

I’m not sure that our comments are really all that connected, I used “single payer healthcare system,” as in the term-of-art for a way of distributing funds for healthcare. You seem to have gotten latched onto the word “system” and seem to be using it in a sort of broad “fight the system” way.

There definitely aren’t any healthcare systems inside of my mirror, not even the bathroom one with a cabinet behind it.

It's a useful way to not address the merits of what I'm saying. That's too bad; we could have talked about something important.