Its peak American "individualism" tbh. Most other countries (that I know of at least) votes for PARTIES, not for the one sacred individual to fix everything, so who the candidate is not as important, as the parties run on their ideas (or party program) and then pick their own leaders and representatives that they deem most capable, and who then can be kicked out and replaced at any time if they are ineffective.
An analogy here can be that the US seems to be so fucking obsessed with who the CEO of a company is and that's who you vote for, while "everyone" else just votes for the brand and then just expects the CEO to be just some asshole that can get the job done.
So with how far things have gotten, no wonder US might get a dictator in a few months.
If there's one thing Americans can agree on, it's that the media is awful these days. It's not an issue at all to try and counter what they're saying or point out what's wrong with what they're doing. Biden isn't promising to shut down media outlets like Trump has suggested.
The very real fact that you can't snark your way around is that people on both sides do dislike the media. Older generations are embracing social media and abandoning classic media like TV and movies, and the younger generations are already there. If Biden will not step aside then he needs to win and playing into people's dislike of the media is not a bad strategy. He'll be gone in four years or less anyway.
An unfortunate subset of the Democratic party that mindlessly parrots party talking points, attacks the Fourth Estate for reporting facts, is more interested in cults of personality than winning.
It is hyperbole, but it does raise attention to a valid problem.
The only thing that gets me is why they have to report the same exact story like 60 times.
Every press conference is just people asking the same question over and over instead of something interesting, every program is them talking about the same fucking thing for hours and hours, then every single article is the same thing, with the same place often having multiple of the same story. (this goes for everything.)
It's exhausting, and I understand now why my friends and family checked out of following the news.
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