As Scott Adams recently pointed out, even if we restrict this argument to the US, while the numbers are truein a very superficial sense, it completely misses th

As Scott Adams recently pointed out, even if we restrict this argument to the US, while the numbers are truein a very superficial sense, it completely misses the fact that this 2.2% of the US population seems to decide what journalists get to talk about, which then affects the entire population. So it's a bit like arguing bees are irrelevant because they are a small percentage of the animal kindgom, completely ignoring the fact that losing the bees would kill off the whole planet.