FFS

Do we really need this acronym? FFS

Oh.

I see.

Because the things that make people happy don't seem to make me so.

Good. That's a key observation, and you need to accept its reality. The next stop is to identify what does make you happy.

You tell me what I am missing to make me happy.

You already established that things that make other people happy do not make you happy. I am not you.

You need to learn via objective introspective observation what does make you happy. You are like many people, but similarity is not identity. No one else has your consciousness, and no one can teach you how to live with it.

If you're so intelligent, why can't you figure out how to be happy?

In America's legal system you are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt; as an individual, you're free to draw your own conclusions.

"Senator, have you read this bill?"

But who moderates the moderators?

Expressing goodwill by spending other people's money doesn't make you a hero in their eyes.

To stay is to explicitly condone the actions of the leadership.

By "to explicitly condone" you seem to mean to implicitly condone.

inject itself and its considerable demographic and monetary clout directly and voluminously into any political debate that takes its fancy. Many european states, learning from experience, outrightly ban such behavior

That's a strong accusation. What specifically is banned by whom?

Your main point is wrong, BTW. If the label is important to people, they should be reluctant to drop it. They can't do anything about the people who are giving it a bad name at the moment, and it's unreasonable to expect otherwise.

"The battle for the world is the battle for definitions" - Thomas Szasz