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You're right that we shouldn't expect them to align the majority if the time, but it's not a reaction to the way things SHOULD be. If the person who disagrees with you gets a bunch of money they can wield it against your interests, and they will. It's a shitty matter of pragmatism that people have been forced to widen their view.
I doubt most people enjoy the situation society has landed us all in, we just wanted cool music and instead we get cool music with celebrity endorsed PACs hiding just out of view.
Most artists don't have anything like that kind of cash or cache. Maybe some of the big corporate marketing babies but not many outside of that. I don't have a significant worry that some guy is going to use my few dollars from bandcamp to push some political party regardless of their beliefs, and I don't listen to marketing-powered, soulless pop nonsense that gets the kind of money behind it I'd have to care about.