The White Hard Right and Left noise in America…..

America is an increasingly diverse nation but a loud, hyper-active group of well-to-do whites on the left and right are tearing it apart from the edges, according to an astonishing new study of our electorate.

The big picture: 14% of America, roughly half left and half right, consistently shouts, posts and votes, while 67% of us are exhausted.

• You have about 8% of Americans in the hard-left camp — almost all white (80%), all well-educated, all voting, all giving money and time to campaigns, all active on social media. Their combined voices dominate Democratic politics.
• You have about 6% in the hard-right camp — almost all white (88%), all well-educated, all voting, all giving money and time to campaigns, all active on social media. Their combined voices dominate Republican politics.
• Oh, and these two groups basically hate everything about each other.

This eye-opening breakdown comes from “Hidden Tribes: A Study of America’s Polarized Landscape,” by the international nonprofit group More in Common.

• The report, one of the largest-ever studies of U.S. polarization, is based on an 8,000-person poll by YouGov, with about a 1% margin of error…..

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The American media , in my view, has a STRONG attraction to overly feature the two groups listen above distorting things for most of us in the middle ….