/r/politics painted a picture of a Hillary Clinton landslide victory, and at the end of the day it meant absolutely nothing.
Just looking at the front page right now, some of the headlines are:
Exit poll: 71 percent bothered by Trump's treatment of women
Trump supporter pepper-sprays Clinton voter during scuffle at Florida poll
Nevada Judge Becomes Hero for Telling Trump Lawyer to “Sit Down” Over Absurd Voter Lawsuit
Gisele posts on Instagram that she and Tom Brady won't back Donald Trump
Guam has predicted the next president for the last 32 years. Today, they voted Clinton.
Donald Trump Ends His Campaign By Getting Booed While Voting For Himself.
The problem's not that these posts are negative towards Trump, the problem is just how disproportionate this to any positive Donald Trump stories or any negative Hillary Clinton stories there are out there.
Even right now as a write this, posts talking about Donald Trump winning in a lot of states or polls projecting him to win are nowhere near the front page, regardless of the amount of upvotes they have. It's not that Reddit's servers are having an issue right now, either, since posts about Florida legalizing medical marijuana made it to the front page that were posted just mere hours ago.
You can't tell me that on a subreddit that's supposed to be on paper an unbiased place for political news, that Trump winning Florida and being projected to win the presidency is not front page news. You can't tell me that it's projected that the Republicans are going to control both the House and the Senate is not important enough to be on the front page while things like...
... are posted amidst all of this and still get sent to the front page. Even if this happened, it's just this endless flood of anything anti-Trump decorating the front page of /r/politics, making it look like Hillary has no chance of losing at all.
Regardless of how some people here will try to spin it, with such a negative amount of content against Trump compared to anything negative related to Hillary, it should really serve as a lesson on how damaging it is to try to control a narrative. People grew complacent, and all those people who supported Donald Trump from the start and kept their mouth shuts capitalized on it. There's a reason why Trump called all his supporters the "silent majority". Because a lot of people always supported Trump but were too scared to say it outloud. And, so, when it comes time to vote, they all voted for the guy they always wanted.
I say all of this as someone who wasn't a Trump supporter. Also, yeah, this is a really long post but it's just been on my mind each time I go on this sub and see such blatant propaganda and how many people are blindly accepting it. This result shows that you can't always trust what you read and that complacency is the worst thing to be.