>The religious figures were pretty evil and the gods were just manipulative aliens. One religious figure, Kai Wynn, is evil. A few of the priests occasionally do bad things, but the other major characters including Vedek Beryll, Sisko, and Opaka are very much good. The prophets themselves are manipulative (so is everyone), but I don't think they're manipulating as shown as evil. Just very blue and orange morality. They don't see things as we do, just as the Bajoransx vulcans, Tellerite, etc aren't exactly human morality. I also don't think "striving for a utopia" is exactly a standard for proving leftist writing. It's just to..broad. I will grant they tackled racism, and famously PTSD. I don't think that makes them leftist though. Just human.

I mean, most of the major conservative political subs are fairly ban happy. So I'm not sure they last line works as well as you think. Hell the biggest 3 at one point we're all interconnected by moderators.

That doesn't mean what you think it means most likely. That statement was a promotion of increased power to the state for safety, at the cost of the Penn family.

Sadly it's not. Reddit (the company) operates by basically giving moderators fiefdoms. You can do whatever the fuck you want in your plot of land so long as you don't piss off the big honcho. And the big honcho says basically anything goes so long as it doesn't hurt the head honcho. The user has no power, their little peasants in the system.

Progressive doesn't automatically mean socialism. It means someone who wants progress. Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive, he damn well wasn't a socialist in any way shape or form.

A small government doesn't mean non-existence. This is like arguing that democratic socialism isn't a thing because they'd have to enforce everything with an authoritarian government. Unless your an anarchist, capitalist or otherwise, government does exist and the definition of small is pretty loose. Presumably the government would provide security for the collective agreement.

They'll ban you for being conservative lol. The conservative sub will often ban you for criticism of Trump, while condemning the same behavior you criticize trump for. They do the same for a lot of people. Getting banned from rconservative is easy, but staying unbanned can be a damn challenge because while you know what they hate always, you never know what they won't hate.

Reagan was fairly adaptable, but honestly he'd probably do just fine I think. He definitely ticks the racist (CRT or whatever) box off, He called African people monkeys in the UN while talking to Nixon. He was almost certainly not a fan of LGBT. He created the abortion angle himself when he allied with Christian evangelicals. He definitely loved his big business and no regulations motto. Also low taxes, high spending, that's all him baby. The current China/Russia situation is backwards to what he said but that's the cold war era. Presumably he'd shift on that if it meant winning.

Just explain how Lincoln wasn't a conservative in the way they think, or so much as mention the southern strategy and viola.

Not sure I put DS9 in the same category as the others. . Religion and Gods play a huge part, it's got a more dark message about the failures of star treks utopia, and the only reason the good guys win is by using genocidal bio warfare. That's after they commit treason and more. It's a heavy deconstruction of Roddenberry socialist views in a lot of ways.

Season 1 discovery was something else. The writing team was clearly in need of experience, and the plot required that some court martialled women be way too important because they...Court martialled her. Don't get me wrong, TNG wasn't great either with the writing, but at least Wesley wasn't making decisions for Picard!