This thread explains the rationale: https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3sure8/introducing_rpoliticalvideo/
The end result of this was that all videos that had even a slight connection to politics were removed, and the politicalvideo subreddit never took off.
Personally I’d prefer to see politics videos allowed. Back in the early days of reddit, r/videos was full of politics videos with lots of engagement. Finally they sent all that to the r/politicalvideo ghetto to die. I always thought that was too bad.
I feel like I’d rather just listen to an audiobook.
Florida just approved PragerU for use in public schools:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/desantiss-florida-approves-climate-denial-videos-in-schools/
What they believe about Evolution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcZOzHMOXoQ