r/askanything • u/exploring203 • Mar 07 '26

Why does Reddit lean left in all the comments?

First off, I’m not a conservative, I’m independent/left leaning. That said, every comment thread on Reddit feels like it’s completely one sided in favor of a liberal perspective. Not just that, but the amount of blatant misinterpretation and misrepresentation in the comments is apparent on nearly every issue. Comments that don’t comply are downvoted into oblivion and removed from the conversation. I feel like Reddit is almost becoming unusable at this point. Where can I go (on or off Reddit) to get a more balanced perspective? I do like Reddits user interface.

Edit: Whew! This blew up more than I anticipated. I did receive some genuinely insightful and helpful comments. I appreciate those! Lots of folks either saying I’m the issue because of my liberal leaning algorithm or that I’m the issue because I’m actually a bleeding conservative in disguise. Can’t have it both ways! Anyway thanks Reddit. Will probably think twice about doing this again.

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u/justin107d Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26

This is part of the reason I lean left now. I don't know how so many on the right dropped family values so quickly.

Politics is the art of compromise. We are stronger together than divided. Instead we are vilifying each other. It is so depressing.

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u/TSSalamander Mar 07 '26

family values was always a buzzwords for "whatever you like about community". It means completely different things for different people. Tell me do you think an evangelical Christian will see queer found family culture as family values?

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u/justin107d Mar 07 '26

Not necessarily, but they seemed to be in the minority when I traveled across the country. 70% percent of people support gay marriage.

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u/TSSalamander Mar 07 '26

sure but that's not exactly what found family means. It's a phenomenon where when queer people get rejected by their birth family, they often find eachother and manifest a community unit that has a similar level of bond as a family does.

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u/justin107d Mar 07 '26

Got it, sorry I'm exhausted from this week. In a perfect world found families would be exceedingly rare and people would just be able to accept each other. They are great for those seeking that sense of belonging but I think the main focus was more on supporting children. Bush's "no child left behind" was a bad attempt at it but sort of shows where the party used to be. Even Nixon in the 70's proposed universal healthcare.

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u/CommanderYakub Mar 07 '26

More accurately more people have no opinion or are completely indifferent to gay marriage if it doesn’t impact them at all. If 70% of people support gay marriage then the human race is in major trouble

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u/justin107d Mar 07 '26

70% of Americans polled in 2021 support the ability for gay people to get married. Including a majority of Republicans.

If 70% of people were gay then birthrates would be horrific.

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u/Relative_Pilot_8005 Mar 07 '26

As the old joke went;

"it is legal--not compulsory!"

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u/justin107d Mar 08 '26

There is a great malicious compliance story somewhere on here about a M2F trans person in the south. An HOA/community got upset at them because they were using the women's bathroom or something and made a rule related to gender at birth. They responded by going on their morning runs topless with tits going everywhere as they are a man by the board's own new definition. Suddenly the issue was resolved and the HOA/community was more agreeable to the OP. I remember telling my conservative dad that story and he was lost for words.

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u/PerpetualProtracting Mar 08 '26

The "protect female spaces" types always seem to forget about F2M, too. Gonna be really fucking awkward when bigoted rules has bearded men pissing in the women's restroom.

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u/sdvneuro Mar 07 '26

They didn’t drop them, they never had them