The percentages here are approximate and vary from situation to situation. And depend on our being able to divide the population into two groups.
We have done this for a long time and it often results in us and them groups. Not very useful categories.
Ortega y Gasset discovered a new category: the Masses, in the Thirties. Writing about them in The Revolt of the Masses. This was a breakthrough in Sociology, but there has not been much follow-up work on it.
But the latest trends in Politics, such as the election of Trump, are doing this work for us. People all over the world are feeling stressed, and are blaming some other group for their problems.
The groups doing the pointing are authoritarian - and the groups being pointed at are rights-oriented.
They are saying "We have our rights (to have an abortion)" but the authoritarians are saying "You most certainly do not!".
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