pretending the left are larger than they actually are
This has been a thing for about a decade now. Social media, "checking your thinking" visits and mobs-for-hire like the ones that spring up out of nowhere try to give the illusion that common sense values and viewpoints are uncouth at best and verboten at worst, but in reality they (the left) represent a very vocal (albeit powerful as they're in power at both sides of the political aisle and have an iron grip on almost every major institution) minority of the population.
If a typical town was taken to a field and asked to split on a common sense issue, I'd wager 7/10 would end up on the "right wing" response, 2/10 would be in the middle as unsure or shaky in their beliefs due to propaganda and indoctrination, and only 1/10 would be true believers in the garbage you're expected to swallow with a smile.
This has been a thing for about a decade now. Social media, "checking your thinking" visits and mobs-for-hire like the ones that spring up out of nowhere try to give the illusion that common sense values and viewpoints are uncouth at best and verboten at worst, but in reality they (the left) represent a very vocal (albeit powerful as they're in power at both sides of the political aisle and have an iron grip on almost every major institution) minority of the population.
If a typical town was taken to a field and asked to split on a common sense issue, I'd wager 7/10 would end up on the "right wing" response, 2/10 would be in the middle as unsure or shaky in their beliefs due to propaganda and indoctrination, and only 1/10 would be true believers in the garbage you're expected to swallow with a smile.