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Jesse Watters show on Fox last night addressed particular segments of the population and their national influence compared to their actual size. What came through loud and clear is how powerful and misleading the mainstream media is. Unable to record statistics presented by Watters, information gathered this morning is reflected below.

Item one is actually beyond shocking, whereas according to Jeffrey M. Jones @/news.gallup.com/poll back on 07/16/2021: “Gallup's latest update on lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender identification finds 5.6% of U.S. adults identifying as LGBT. The current estimate is up from 4.5% in Gallup's previous update based on 2017 data.”

From the amount of attention these individuals get, throughout school systems, news items, certainly the media and everywhere else, one would think they’re a significant part of the population. But in reality they’re a drop in the bucket, little more than a rounding error in a mathematical chart. As it turns out, every nine and a half people out of ten are normal.

Similarly, according to thehill.com, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds that: “One-third of voters identify as ‘woke.’”

“Thirty-two percent of registered voters in the July 8-9 survey said they see themselves as woke to the extent that they understand the term.

“Twenty-three percent of respondents said they do not identify as woke while 13 percent said they are unsure.

“Thirty-one percent of voters said they don’t know what the term “woke” means.

“Woke” generally refers to someone who is aware of social issues such as racial prejudice and discrimination. It has increasingly become a divisive word in political circles, with conservatives belittling “woke” progressives.

“Thirty-eight percent of voters said being woke is a good thing while 21 percent said it is a bad thing, specifically.

“Roughly 60 percent of Democrats said being woke is a good thing while 5 percent said it’s a bad thing and 37 percent said it’s neither.

“Twenty-percent of Republican respondents said it is a good thing while 39 percent said being woke is a bad thing and 41 percent said it’s neither.“Thirty-six percent of independents said being woke is a good thing while 19 percent said it’s a bad thing. Forty-six percent said it is neither.”

So, here again, while "woke" simply identifies an awareness of social issues related to race, it’s Democrats who choose to promote it disproportionately to the  rest of the voting public. Primarily through the partnering media “wokeness” is apparently far overblown compared to what national statistics actually indicate.

One more area researched out of curiosity considering the attention received in the press was the Black Lives Matter movement. Here an article was found @www.nbcnews.com from Nov. 16, 2021 by Claretta Bellamy showing: “A new poll found a decline in support among Americans for the Black Lives Matter movement, a year and a half after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and other high-profile deaths of Black people in encounters with police sparked a global outcry.

“According to a national poll conducted by Civiqs, a nonpartisan online survey firm affiliated with the progressive media group Daily Kos, 44 percent of respondents, overall, said they support the Black Lives Matter movement. Another 43 said they oppose it, while 11 percent said they neither support nor oppose it. The survey has tracked respondents’ viewpoints at multiple moments from April 2017 to this month. Civiqs did not provide a margin of error.

The poll results indicate, support for the Black Lives Matter movement peaked in June 2020 at 52 percent, a month after Floyd was killed.”Thus, once more the emphasis received from the left as well as the media as usual, is significantly different than feelings throughout the general population whereas two out of three citizens do not support the movement to the extent suggested by reporting.

The media distortions above are remindful of the “silent majority” defined by Wikipedia as “an unspecified large group of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly. The term was popularized by U.S. President Richard Nixon in a televised address on November 3, 1969, in which he said, "And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support." In this usage it referred to those Americans who did not join in the large demonstrations against the Vietnam War at the time, who did not join in the counterculture, and who did not participate in public discourse. Nixon, along with many others, saw this group of Middle Americans as being overshadowed in the media by the more vocal minority.”

While the “silent majority” is defined as “an unspecified large group of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly,” from the statistics above it seems that for a subject like LGBT, that group contains more than nine out of every ten people. It’s doubtful groups get much larger than that.

That’s it for today folks.

Adios

PS: The Bronx barmaid in Congress bought some powdered water for her bar, but she doesn’t know what to add to it.