I can’t really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by “both” sides of the spectrum. It’s just something I find interesting.
I can’t really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by “both” sides of the spectrum. It’s just something I find interesting.
The US is not inherently nor totally right wing, and Twitter was predominantly left wing until fairly recently. It might not have been full left wing socialist, but it was certainly left of centre.
I won’t argue this because it is almost impossible to prove one way or another.
Instead, I will make this argument: Neoliberalism is a right-wing ideology. It is also the main platform of both political parties that receive representation in the US. Therefore we can conclude - since only these two parties hold any significant power - that the right-wing has had an unbroken hold over the politics of the US throughout modern history.
Perhaps there are more leftists than I realize in the US. But if they don’t speak, and they don’t act, then what does it matter? They aren’t on Lemmy, they aren’t on reddit, and they aren’t in the streets making revolution. All I have found is neoliberals who call themselves left. Honestly I think that’s where most of our differences of opinion come from in this comment chain - some people think that neoliberalism is leftist, whereas I am going by the textbook definitions of left and right. And even those ‘left’ neoliberals constantly get jumped on by their own party members - I saw it all the time in r/politics. Republicans called that sub leftist but it was anything but.
Both parties in the US government are indeed right wing, but not everyone and everything in the US is right wing.
Communism is unfortunately a dirty word in the US, and socialism isn’t far behind it. It doesn’t help that there have been numerous foreign governments that call themselves communist that the US has labeled as enemies and fought against. As a result, an American labeling themselves communist is often ostracised. However, many people do in fact hold those ideals, albeit quietly and/or without naming it such.
An American politics forum is of course going to mirror American politics.
However Twitter and reddit as a whole were left wing. Not as in reading Marx, but in being for the good of everyone, with the core principle of serving the needs of the many rather than the desires of the few. They were also incredibly liberal. They’ve since been taken over by pseudo right wing authoritarian interests, gradually since around 2016.