“What remains a mystery to me is how a mere tenth of the population thinks it can make demands on the rest of society. How does that work?”
It works when a majority of the other 90% have so much guilt, from brain washing in the public school system, they give in to the demands no matter how ridiculous they became and how much damage is done to the nation.
From K to 12 I only spent one year in parochial school, yet I don’t remember on lesson about my guilt for slavery, Jim Crow or anything else. We were taught about the founding fathers, how to read, do sums, write, behave and study. Of course that was 1965-78, not now.