But none of this has anything to do with my search terms "democracy is not served in a tea cup".

It is 100% unrelated to those search terms.

And it was 100% propaganda, trying to get me to think Walz has a stellar military record and honors and such.

I won't use DDG again.  I've blocked it. 

 Just tried and got the same result. wtf. 
brave search engine got more of a neutral result.
So what search engine is appropriate these days? 

 Duckduckgo does not proxy Google, it proxies Bing.