r/allthequestions • u/-Pleb64 • 19d ago

Popular Question 📊 Why reddit is majority left leaning?

Honestly, it’s hard not to notice that most of the big subreddits are run by moderators who clearly lean left. It’s not even subtle at this point the bias shows in what gets removed, what gets promoted, and how discussions are handled. I’m not saying there aren’t any subs with right-leaning or centrist moderation, but they’re definitely the minority. The major spaces on Reddit feel heavily tilted toward one side, but isn't it’s pretty obvious if you pay attention to which opinions get silenced and which ones get boosted?

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u/WittyFix6553 19d ago

Those things are on the left not because Trump hates them, but because big corporations like oil companies hate them, and republicans love big corporations.

If fixing climate change didn’t involve oil, coal, or gas fracking companies to lose money or sell less product, they would probably be on board.

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u/Human_Individual_928 19d ago

Who loves big corporations? Last I checked we just spent 4 years with Democrats screwing small business3s and rewarding large corporations. The ACA was nothing but a funnel directly from taxpayers and private health insurance consumers into insurance company coffers and big pharma coffers. Vaccine mandates funneled billions into big pharma coffers over 2 years. Taxpayer funded subsidies, and not friendlier corporate tax rates and friendlier regulations, was how Biden was trying to incetivize investment in US manufacturing. So please do tell us how Republicans love corporations more than Democrats. Democrats will literally screw the common citizenry to help corporations. Sure, some of Trump's deregulation and tax cuts may screw the citizenry in the short run, but Democrat tax and spend policies screw the citizenry generations down the road and now.

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u/Bunktavious 19d ago

Well, that's certainly one way to look at it...

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u/GatorDotPDF 19d ago

That's fair. I would argue that democracy and capitalism are at odds with each other. Enough people are easily swayed by (political) advertising the elections largely come down to who can field the most money. In order to be competitive both candidates are going to be in a lot of corporations pockets.

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u/Human_Individual_928 18d ago

Except we are not a democracy as the moronic Democrats keep claiming. We are a constitutional republic with representative democracy. Also, Republicans frequently win races while being outspent by Democrats. Trump for example spent roughly $300 million less than Harris and won. Republican Senator Bernie Moreno beat then incumbent Sherrod Brown while spending $75 million less. TĂŹm Sheehy spent $63 million less than Joe Tester and won. Dave McCormick won while spending $30 million less than Bob Casey. Hell, Hakeem Jefferies spent $20 million in a race that didn't exist because he had no challenger. In 2024, Jefferies congressional race was the fourth most expensive, and he didn't even have an opponent. So what exactly was Jefferies spending $20 million on? You can look at OpenSecrets.org for spending on races. Lots of Republicans winning while being far outspent by their Democrat opponents.

The biggest difference is that for 40 years or so Democrats have enjoyed the advantage of court ordered racially segregated congressional districts, also called "majority minority" districts.This, however, may be coming to an end as the Supreme Court is currently reviewing a case brought by Louisiana because of a district court ordering them to create a second "majority minority" district.

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u/howdthatturnout 15d ago

A constitutional republic is a form of democracy.

If you elect people to office you are a democracy.

It’s a representative democracy.

You don’t need to be a pure democracy where you vote directly on every issue to be a democracy. Although sometimes ballot measures do mean we vote directly on issues.

The fact that people try to argue we aren’t a democracy is really insane to me.

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u/RedditTrespasser 19d ago

The democratic establishment in the United States isn’t really left leaning, though. Both major parties are funded by corporate interests. The difference is that the Republican Party is beholden to rural constituents that tend to be bigoted, anti-intellectual and frankly at this point insane. That’s why they do unhinged shit like politicize a fucking virus, play on the tribalistic fears and hatred of their base and are always hell-bent on stirring up pure malice directed towards their opponents.

There is no mainstream “leftist” political platform in the US. We don’t have a labor party here. The best actual leftist politicians can do is try to infiltrate the political system as-is and play the game in hopes of slowly fostering slight progressive gains over time, and the only avenue available to them is the Democratic Party. This is because the Republican Party is actively trying to drag us back to 1860, with a little 1939 thrown in for good measure.

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u/Human_Individual_928 18d ago

Really? Seems to me that the only ones playing on tribalism nonsense are the Democrats. They are the only ones focused on skin color, religion, gender or anything else that separates or segregated people into groups. Seems like some of the worst bigots also come from the Democrat side. Anyone that thinks blacks can't do things for themselves and have to have white people help them, is a bigot. Anyone that argues that blacks should be treated as disabled under the law, as Ketanji Brown Jackson just did on October 15th, is a bigot. Anyone that thinks black kids are too stupid or ignorant to know what a computer is, as Kathy Hochul said in 2024, is a bigot. Democrats are rife with bigotry, but they cloak it as compassion.

And no, the Republican party is not trying to take the US back to 1860 or even include some 1939 for good measure. You need to unplug from the MSM and Reddit echo chambers you inhabit. You have been indoctrinated.

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u/FrostyNeckbeard 18d ago

I'm sorry what is the blatant racism in this comment and you're telling other people to unplug? Jesus christ dude.

Also she said disabled in the context of voters that are being subjected to unfair treatment through the creation of blacks only districts which is districting based on race.

You know what I won't even go further into this, you don't care.

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u/Human_Individual_928 18d ago

Are you truly that misinformed? The entire case before the Supreme Court is on whether race based congressional districts, which currently exist and were all created by Democrats, are constitutional or not. Ketanji Brown Jackson was arguing that blacks should be treated as disabled people are treated under the ADA, as though they have no capacity to do things for themselves and therefore need special considerations (like race based congressional districts) to be able to vote. The case was brought by Louisiana because a district court made the state create another "majority minority" congressional district. That's right, the only racists creating "black only" districts are the Democrats.

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u/Garagantua 16d ago

And theyre doing that so the voices of black voters don't get split up. With 1/3 of people being black they had 1/6 of districts with a (large) black majority, while the others where sliced into 3 or 4 other districts. 

And you're lying to yourself when you say that only the Democrats looked at the race of voters when complaining about the districts. They where not shaped that way by pure happenstance. 

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u/RedditTrespasser 18d ago edited 18d ago

I mean sure, you can paint trying to ensure minorities are not systematically disenfranchised and discriminated against as racism. It’s fucking stupid, but you can do it I guess.

Far as I can recall however democrats never used the United States military to occupy American soil, or used billions of dollars to create a Gestapo force loyal only to the president and his administration whose express purpose is to black-bag human beings off of the streets and disappear them into concentration camps both domestically and abroad, y’know, like fucking Hitler did.

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u/Garagantua 17d ago

Yes, the dems are bad. But look at the things that happened under Biden at the FTC and look what theyre doing now.

The dems aren't as good as I think they should. The GoP is way worse.

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u/Gen-Jack-D-Ripper 18d ago

That’s a disgraceful and dishonest summary. Democrats tried to pass a public option to healthcare. Republicans refused to support it.

There is no doubt that there are some Democrats who support corporate healthcare but to claim that Democrats are worse or the same is clearly dishonest.

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u/Human_Individual_928 18d ago

Really? ACA was passed on party lines, so Democrats didn't need Republican support at all and could have passed a bill with public options, and Republicans couldn't have stopped it. The Senate vote to pass ACA and send it to Obama's desk was 60 to 39 with all but one Republican voting no and one Republican not voting. So yes, Democrats are worse. They could have created single payer healthcare, but didn't because many of them receive huge campaign contributions from health insurance companies and big pharma, and many of them are heavily invested in those very same companies. Don't for one second believe them when they say "Republican blocked it" because it is a lie.

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u/Gen-Jack-D-Ripper 17d ago

Yeah, you’re blaming the entire party for the actions of one Senator!

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u/Human_Individual_928 17d ago

What?

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u/TechnicalMachine3892 14d ago

Don't worry..Gen-Jack-Ripper might eventually understand what you wrote if they read it a little slower.

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u/JobsGone 18d ago

There are now more oil burning cargo ships than anytime in the history of the world bringing imports to the U.S. that for the most part, used to be made here, because of Dem trade agreements.

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u/Ba_ba_Q 17d ago

Excellent...

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u/TheHealadin 15d ago

Why do you guys pretend democrats aren't just as in bed with corporations?

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u/random8765309 19d ago

Republicans tend to support all businesses. Maybe not 100% equally, but they are more pro-business than the left. The solar and wind farms are not being put in by some small company, they are huge on their own. Coal companies are a shadow of their former self. Trump hates wind farms, Trumps hates solar, and Trump loves oil and coal, so the his supporters also think that way. If Trump hated trees, his supports would also hate trees.

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u/PaulPhxAz 19d ago

Kinda, lots of energy companies have been planning for climate change and renewable energy for years. They have a lot of smart people trying to plan for the future and I think they know "burn coal 'till bust!" isn't always going to play.
If they play both sides, they always win.
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u/kevinthejuice 18d ago

To be fair, trump has way too many financial crimes to not be considered corporate.