Just curious, have you learned yet?
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I mean, I was never a Biden supporter.
I voted for him because I didn't want Trump to be in power anymore.
I never went to a Biden rally. I would never buy Biden merch. I couldn't care less if the man makes it through his term.
I don't think Biden got a whole lot of votes from people who were passionate about Biden taking office. I think he got a lot of votes from people who reluctantly understood that they had a binary choice, and one of them was Donald Trump, and they weren't okay with that choice.
There are other candidates I would have happily voted for. Clinton was not one of them. Biden was not one of them. I was a supporter of them on paper only.
Which is why, BTW, you're seeing a lot of criticism of Biden without much fanfare in the Real World. Because people who voted for Biden don't feel any problem criticizing the man whatsoever. It's not that the narrative is changing. It's that the narrative was never that supportive of Biden in the first place. He's an extremely conservative Democrat.
I disagree with fewer of his policies than I do Trump's policies. Among other things.
He just had a better chance at unseating Trump than the candidates I would have preferred to vote for.
I understand. Although I'm an Independent, I never voted R until 2016, but I was voting the best way I knew how against John Podesta. The absurd all-out media assault on Trump convinced me he was the right guy and the media had been captured by the baby raper cult. So I voted for Trump again.
I agree that the media isn't always to be trusted. But I don't accept that just because the media takes one side, it is automatically the wrong side based on them holding that position.
Q believes the earth is round.
I believe the earth is round.
I don't believe the earth is round on the basis of Q believing the earth is round.
The fact that Q believes the earth is round has absolutely no bearing on how I arrive at my conclusion about the roundness of the earth.
I don't agree with Q on most things, but I don't disagree with Q simply because he is Q.
The fact that Q and I agree on something despite me not seeing Q as a trustworthy source on any information does not cause me any dissonance. Because I don't much care what Q has to say about anything.
I also don't much care what the media has to say about Trump.
I disagree with Trump because of the things he says and does, not because the media has reported that Trump says and does bad things.
Luckily for me, Trump was able to bypass the media's "authority" through Twitter and numerous live briefings and through his own confirmation (or failure to deny) those things the media reported on him.
So I was able to not like Trump because Trump was able to talk directly to me about the things he believed and wanted to do, and I didn't like most of it.
Even though I also don't like the media and don't trust them to collectively act as a neutral source on any particular topic.
Mindlessly believing what the media says to you allows you to be manipulated.
Mindlessly taking the position opposite to what the media is telling you also allows you to be manipulated.
It's extremely possible to end up on the same "side" as the media on an issue for reasons completely unrelated to whatever motivation a media outlet has for taking the side that it takes.
Just like Q and I are on the same side when it comes to a round earth, despite neither of us really caring what the other has to say about it.
Blah blah blah. You voted Biden. You're right up there with the flat earthers in my book.
That's a very black-and-white way of seeing the world. Binary ways of thinking about complex issues are way too easy to be enjoyable or productive.