No one is listening to your tweets.

Here's a good-news story in among all the war and pestilence stories that are being blared at us 24/7/365 by the Lamestream Press. Nobody is listening.

Why it matters: The rising power and prominence of the nation's loudest, meanest voices obscures what most of us personally experience: Most people are sane and generous — and too busy to tweet. 

Reality check: It turns out, you're right. We dug into the data and found that, in fact, most Americans are friendly, donate time or money, and would help you shovel your snow. They are busy, normal and mostly silent.

Yes. Most people are off the news-drip and getting on with life. Here are the specifics from the article:

1.  75% of people in the U.S. never tweet.
2. On an average weeknight in January, just 1% of U.S. adults watched primetime Fox News (2.2 million). 0.5% tuned into MSNBC (1.15 million).
3. Nearly three times more Americans (56%) donated to charities during the pandemic than typically give money to politicians and parties (21%).

Americans closely resemble Canadians in these numbers from articles I've seen over the years. We're a little less generous with charities, a lot less generous with politics. Note that of the ones watching the news, double the number watch Fox than MSNBC. That's some pretty good news too.

I take this to mean that the partisans raging on the Internet, both the Left and the Right, are a tiny number of people who basically represent nothing. That's encouraging. The vast majority are simply not listening to them, or to the politicians.

Good times!