I don't know if anyone was paying attention on Reddit during the primaries, but there was barely a peep of Biden support there. I remember several threads on, say, /askaliberal, asking Biden supporters why they are still supporting Biden. Very few actual Biden supporters responded, and instead discussion was mostly other liberals explaining why they thought someone might support Biden or outright criticizing Biden.

I know there's a lot of criticism for Biden here, and I understand why, so with all due respect, I'm not interested in that discussion. What I do find interesting is that after the primary, Redditors were in shock that Biden won the nom so easily. I've been hanging around the internet as soon as I could get my hands on a modem. Back in the day people freely spoke their minds, anonymously or not. As the years passed and social media use became more ubiquitous, more and more people started seeing and feeling the danger of airing your opinions in type. Surprisingly to me, this has resulted in popular opinions being silenced.

Of course, I'm not going to take anything for granted during this time. However, I've got two colleagues that proudly wear their bespoke pronoun pins on their Fjallraven backpacks that will more likely than not vote the exact same way I do no matter what anyone has to say about trans issues. Teacher's unions advocate for teacher-positive initiatives and candidates. Those two young teachers have a harder time paying the rent than an established old hand like me, so I guarantee you, no matter what they might be saying ideologically, they do inevitably listen to union advice and vote with their pocketbook.