Protestors and the Silent Majority - we have been doing this wrong, look at the numbers

I, like many on the OT, have been following the protests and related mayhem for the last couple of weeks. While I am not to the point of “this is the end of the USA” like some folks, I appreciate the sentiment. I was reading about the DC protests yesterday and how media is blowing this event up as such a major deal and then I read the numbers. The media got their crowd estimates from “law enforcement sources” and “BLM organizers” and we know that both parties like to exaggerate the numbers for propaganda. But let’s take the numbers at face value.

Let’s also assume, for this discussion, that all protestors are local. This gives them maximum value but realistically many in the DC protest probably travelled.

I looked it up and the DC metro area has 6.2 million residents.

The “massive protest” (every media source terms it this way) drew 200,000. Help me with my math here but that looks to be 3% of the population.

200,000 / 6,200,000 = .032

Meanwhile 97% of our society is going to work, feeding our kids and being held hostage to these peoples shouted demands as they throw temper tantrums and burn our businesses? Our politicians are coddling these fricks and promising to give them billions of our tax dollars, to “transform” our police and to change the way we live our daily lives. For 3%? What about me and my neighbors and the taxpayers in my city? Are we ignored because we aren’t out burning and looting? Time for the Silent Majority to get not silent I say. frick these losers and their fringe demands.