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You sound like an exceptional person!

I don't want to live in a society that requires everyone to be as exceptional as you are in order to live comfortably.

Many people disagree with you, and want to live in a society where only exceptional people can live comfortably, and the rest of them live miserably. Many, many, many of the miserable people actually like it better this way, which is proven by their voting habits.

I think that it's hard to determine people's desires from voting habits. Voting is kind of a game, wouldn't you say? It's got teams and everything, almost like a spectator sport.

When asked directly, though, progressive policies (or whatever word you want to use here to mean "anti-misery") are very popular!

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