How come the answer to every javascript question ends up being "jQuery"

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I've been following the javascript questions here for the last few weeks, and I've found a common recurring theme.

Almost any question asked on here that involves JavaScript gets answered with:

  1. "jQuery can do that"
  2. "there's a plugin for that"
  3. "jQuery can make your bed for you."

Even questions referencing other libraries are answered by saying "Use jQuery instead".

Is jQuery replacing JavaScript as a whole?
This is a serious question. Are we really looking at JavaScripts future. Obviously this community has a strong bias towards jQuery (is that because there's alot of .NET developers?), but does the web development community as a whole share this bias?

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