This is basically the reason I can’t really get into this site beyond the “is a group chat with people I miss from Twitter.” All the would-be Serious People are concerningly unserious and appear completely unaware of this. I’m somewhat unsure how to align this to election feelings.

yes. I tell myself that the prevailing mindset here is an emergent property of composition, like a founder effect, and that it's a rounding error to a rounding error compared to the electorate. I am mostly sure of this. but if that coin comes up tails twice...