Anyone who thinks about it at all understands that reddit gets manipulated pretty heavily. And for what it's worth, I stopped using FB and stay in specific sub

Anyone who thinks about it at all understands that reddit gets manipulated pretty heavily. And for what it's worth, I stopped using FB and stay in specific subreddits now in large part due to the politics surrounding Trump. I'm a left leaning moderate who got really sick and tired of all the outlandish gif/memes running through FB that completely mischaracterized BOTH candidates, and then the lefts response on reddit just ... disappointed is probably the best word I can think of (I am left leaning, after all). In truth I only ever had 13 friends on FB and I know all of them in real life (And talk to them on a regular basis) so quitting FB wasn't really a big deal as I hardly used it except to post something I thought was amusing. And with reddit I just stick to things like /r/programming, /r/printSF, etc. Even in /r/programming I've gotten irritated when I see people take completely unrelated topics and inject politics (trump hate) into it. I guess the long and the short of it is that I understand completely, and I think your observations are fairly accurate.