Study Shows Conservatives Outnumber Progressives 3 to 1
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🗓️ 11 October 2018
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Summary
New Study Is Bad News For Progressive Activists as it shows 80% of Americans think political correctness is a problem. It shows that progressive activists only make up 8% of the country but conservatives make up 25%.
Even more interesting for those focused on social justice and diversity is that the "politically disengaged" group actually shares its values and concerns with conservatives. This probably explains why media companies and politicians that chase social justice and progressive issues don't do that well
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| 0:00.0 | A new study has come out by a group called Hidden Tribes using data from you gov, |
| 0:03.9 | and the findings are extremely interesting for one. 80% of the US population finds political |
| 0:09.6 | correctness to be a problem. Among progressive activists, 30% actually think political correctness |
| 0:15.8 | is a problem. That was one of the weirdest things the study showed, but it also shows that |
| 0:20.4 | progressives only make up 8% of the US population, and they are overwhelmingly white and wealthy. |
| 0:27.0 | I've often asked myself, why is it that media companies keep laying people off? Why are they |
| 0:31.3 | doing so poorly? But then you can see the daily wire doing better than ever? They get three or |
| 0:36.0 | four times the engagements of the top left-wing publication on Facebook. You can see Fox News, |
| 0:41.0 | three times the ratings of CNN and MSNBC combined. Why is that? I think the reason is fairly obvious |
| 0:46.9 | when you look at this data. Progressives make up a tiny minority of the country, |
| 0:51.7 | and conservatives make up around 25%, but interestingly, disengaged individuals, people who are not |
| 0:57.7 | political, share their values with conservatives. So it's no surprise that Republicans dominated |
| 1:03.2 | all three branches of government. Now, does this mean they're going to retain the House in the |
| 1:07.2 | midterms I have no idea? But this data shows us that when media companies, when politicians chase |
| 1:13.5 | this tiny minority, they're going after people who aren't going to get them elected. The Atlantic |
| 1:18.4 | actually wrote a story about it. So the first thing you want to look at is just how many Americans, |
| 1:22.7 | and just why, Americans don't like political correctness. But before we get started, please set |
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| 1:32.6 | content I create. So if you like these videos and you like the videos on my second channel, |
| 1:36.6 | please go to patreon.com-fords-timcast to support my work. The report, Hidden Tribes, a study of |
| 1:42.4 | America's polarized landscape. This is the basis for an article by The Atlantic, which we're |
| 1:46.9 | going to start with first. They say, Americans strongly dislike PC culture. Youth isn't a good proxy |
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