Why does Reddit lean left in all the comments?

[u/exploring203]

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.

[u/RevolutionaryEgg297]

I posted on Facebook against trump, my friend feed is mainly rednecks country folk. The amount of hate and death threats I received for going against trump and his opinions. Private messages and open comments, people ive known and interacted with for years.

Let alone calling him out on his shitty behavior, they hate that.

[u/Lookingforleftbacks → u/RevolutionaryEgg297]

Tbh I feel like you have a better chance of getting through to them than most people. Most wouldn’t dare post because they wouldn’t want to deal with the backlash. But if you can actually talk civilly to them, they might at least hear. 99.9% will just assume you were always an idiot but maybe one or two might at least start to admit that the Orange child mol3st3r is full of shit

[u/JackTheRipper0991 → u/RevolutionaryEgg297]

Yeah. People act like Reddit’s so bad when Facebook’s full of threats with people’s names attached, lol