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That's a remarkably privileged and blasé take, denying the importance of civic engagement.

Civic engagement happens in the real world, not by commenting on reddit, fb or Twitter.

Civic engagement happens wherever people discuss politics

That would be quite an exaggeration. You can already see in this thread how fast the conversation deteriorate into completely meningless quibbles.

Posting in political subreddits is not "civic engagement."