Thanks for the support! I knew that whales had an upper hand on Steem/Hive but I didn't realise quite how damaging a downvote from one could be. To be honest, I was surprised to see that my reputation was completely wiped out and rendered my account virtually useless on this platform. I don't think the downvote option should be taken away but the power of one whale to destroy an account for no reason other than disagreeing with their political views needs to be addressed urgently or it will be the end of this platform.

As for the far-left, I checked out the account that downvoted it and the ones tied to it and it appears to originate from the berniesanders account on Steem. That's why I put that in the title as I consider those on that side of the spectrum to be far-left. If it was someone anonymous or who had nothing to link to them those views then I wouldn't have included it but from I could deduce, it would appear they downvoted and ruined this account because they disagreed with what I'm saying.

You will have seen from my posts so far that I am not spreading hate, I'm only trying to share the stuff or make the points that the media is not. I want to have discussions, I want to see why someone disagrees with me. I don't want an echo chamber of people who feel exactly the same way as me. You'd have noticed from the comments I am eager to respond and explore these issues further. That's what I hoped this platform could be but sadly it appears it is not.

Unfortunately I'm probably going to call it a day on Hive and Steem very soon as this is not the platform I want to support, nor am I really able due to the destruction of this account.