The Washington Post (famous newspaper in the D.C. area) chose not to endorse either candidate, at the urging of its owner, Jeff Bezos (a millionaire, and former owner of Amazon).
I had no idea that it was usual for newspapers to endorse one candidate or another in most elections, and (in another forum) I wrote that it would not have been proper to do so. I soon learned that endorsing a candidate is quite normal around here.
But this means that the entire newspaper endorsed someone, rather than one columnist endorsing him or her! That seems so weird to me. When I was a kid, noticing elections for the first time, in a galaxy far far away, many newspapers refrained from endorsing a particular party or person, leaving the columnists free to do so. That may have been the right way to do it, but things have changed since then.
It's extremely disconcerting as to how naïve most people are about politics. Some people think it has to do with education. Well, not exactly; but quite likely educated people might be just a little more sophisticated about seeing behind the façade of politics-speak. But everywhere—even in other countries, it seems—people have lost the particular kind of cynicism that enables them to vote for the most useful candidate for an office. They tend to take candidates at their word, a huge mistake. I don't even take Kamala Harris at her word, though she's a lot more trustworthy (for a politician).
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