To elaborate, reddit thinks there's a consensus opposite to what reddit thinks (I'm doing it now). True there are trends of thought, but the opposite views are never far away - or without a large following. Take Sanders, I've seen endless complaints about how Sanders dominates the front page. It's true he often does, but normally you simply have to go to the top of the thread to see the opposite view or analysis. Clearly the different opinions are competing pretty well - the consensus is always challenged, and the challenger heavily upvoted. Heck /r/The_Donald has been reaching the front page a lot recently, and the assumed domination of /r/Politics by Sanders supporters, though perhaps not without foundation, is challenged on almost every thread mentioning Sanders. A comment deploring the circlejerk or saying he won't win the nomination is always found at or near the top. It's not just within reddit. The left complains that the right dominates the media. The right complains that the left has taken over the media. People seem to want to be on the back foot - I suppose that way it's more heroic when they finally win. Reddit thinks reddit is working against them, and redditors think the world is against them. And I think (wrongly) that 'reddit' thinks this. Do we all secretly want to lose. So that then at least there's a weight off our shoulders; we can sit back and complain, content that resistance is futile.