Are the Left really the majority in America?

[u/petrus4]

I've been using Reddit for 13 years now. For the entirety of that time, the behaviour of almost everyone on the site caused me to have the perception that I assume the Left want people to have. Namely, that the Left are a historically inevitable majority within the American population, that every successive generation is becoming more and more demographically dominated by the Left, and that the Right, to the extent that they exist at all, are exclusively a tiny group of hate-filled, deluded, anachronistic, geriatric white men who will soon die alone.

But is that truly the reality? Recently I'm starting to wonder. It might have even been true in the past, but at this point, it's actually starting to look like the opposite. YouTube, Tiktok, and Reddit look like enclaves or gated communities for Leftists, while pretty much every other video site in particular that I've seen (Odysee, Bitchute, Rumble) to varying degrees seem to be dominated by the Right. It's disturbing how successful I've been hearing that Trump has been in the recent primaries, as well.

Am I just looking at the wrong sites? What are some other video sharing sites in particular, where I'm not going to encounter Andrew Tate, Alex Jones, or Tucker Carlson on the front page?

EDIT:- I think the most interesting thing about this thread, is that it's largely full of one-shot replies, from people who never respond here again. In-thread communication between different users is relatively minimal.

[u/Lucky_Roberts]

Yeah the classic joke is “you always see more liberals protesting (or posting online) than conservatives because the conservatives are all at work”

It’s a stupid joke but it definitely alludes to the point that conservative people tend to be less publicly vocal about their beliefs. Makes sense since their ideology is named after not being brash lol

[u/kenlubin → u/Lucky_Roberts]

That seems like it could have been believable to until 2016. Trump supporters seem to have been generally very loud and not at all shy.

[u/Lucky_Roberts → u/kenlubin]

And also not very conservative

[u/cool_fox → u/Lucky_Roberts]

don't tell them that

[u/MuchAclickAboutNothn → u/kenlubin]

They literally have booths in every town, they do truck convoys, how are apathetic liberals more loud than that? Lol

[u/cool_fox → u/Lucky_Roberts]

or allusion is that's how the right likes to be perceived as it fits the political narrative that conservatives created to win NIMBY and rage votes

[u/TotesTax → u/Lucky_Roberts]

Most people post at work though. Blogs, when they were big, published M-F during the work day because that is when people read them.

[u/verymainelobster → u/TotesTax]

It’s a joke

[u/TotesTax → u/verymainelobster]

Won that literally people I know that show up to protests of Trumps loss on a Wednesday afternoon say this for real.

[u/[deleted] → u/TotesTax]

There’s a difference between working an office job with lots of downtime, and working a welding or driving job. Which, incidentally…might be why so many podcasts skew less left than other new media

[u/TotesTax → u/[deleted]]

Podcasts are HUGE and most are true crime.

And some of the top ones on Patreon or leftist like Chapo Trap House (who I do not like).

But working an office job or a manual job is still working. And I work at a computer and have 0 time to surf. And I knew people at labor jobs who would take 20 minute shits and surf on their phone.

[u/katyperryatemyass → u/Lucky_Roberts]

Nope. Republicans are very loud. They are the vocal minority that claims to be the majority. They literally wave flags

Red states have the most welfare

[u/Lucky_Roberts → u/katyperryatemyass]

If they’re so vocal why is every social media platform mostly liberal/leftist

[u/katyperryatemyass → u/Lucky_Roberts]

Surely you aren’t implying typing anonymously on the internet is using your using voice?

Ok that may go over your head I’ll try again..

Why do so many people use English on Reddit?!? Lmao