My city subreddit isn’t even the worst, but someone asks how to ride the trolley for free and gets downvoted to shit and shamed.
It’s the psychology of different sorts of humans. The kind that we today call right-wing has respect for legitimate authority as one of its core values. The kind that we today call left-wing sees that there is no such thing as “legitimate” authority and that all power must devolve to the people. Thus the right’s values look like fascism. Which they pretty much are.