reality began knocking at the door.

There is a forum for just about everything.

There is no Reddit consensus on anything.

bat shit crazy donald trump forum.

People try to spin it like "reddit is this, reddit is that". Aside from, as near as i can tell, being generally anti-censorship, it seems too big to pin down politically.

Me, personally, i find it too daunting to really wade into, theres almost too much going on.

I made a post about it during the convention, on the DU, asking what had happened to make reddit so anti-clinton/pro-trump. Its quite the turnaround.

During the 2008 Obama Campaign... Seemingly in the span of 8 weeks!
It was amazing how quickly things changed at that site!

All the Trump supporters hang out in r/thedonald high-fiving each other and raving about Wikileaks Since most of them are there, the other politics subs are more pro-Clinton.

Reddit is very large and very diverse.

It has tons of "sub-reddits."

It's got everyone from racists to communists.

though I usually lurk is this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/socialistamerica/

Probably because I love maps, flags, alternative history and revolutionary politics.

It's like a few thousand individual message boards and newsgroups.

It's why it's so strange to see people come on here and declare Reddit "deplorable" in blanket terms

People see what they want to see. The very statement I just made might be that in action as far I can tell.

I think we as individuals all see ourselves as the underdog, so we see the people disagreeing with us more than the people that agree with us. Then if you don't agree with me 100%, you're anti-something that I think, which creates the disagreement.

It's that never ending battle between the individual and the collective. We want to be part of something bigger, but we also want to differentiate ourselves from the whole.