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Fortunately, most of the public are not making that demand. It's well worth keeping in mind that those people are vastly outnumbered: https://xkcd.com/2305/

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Big fan of majoritarian rule, will of the people, consent of the governed.

How do we realize that ideal?

Legalizing psychedelics.

If you dig into the science of polling, what you discover is that the way people answer questions is rather confounding, so management of the largest polls typically do not like to use the modern science of polling.

See David Moore's book The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth Behind the Polls.

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