A recent headline from the mainstream media blared the news (stated the obvious): more than 60% of Americans don’t believe that either half of the U.S.’s two-party political system cares about the endangered species known as “the Middle Class.”

How endangered is the Middle Class, in the United States and across North America, as a whole? The chart below reveals the horrifying truth.

We see that in China the Middle Class (wealth deciles 4 – 7) is a broad swath of the population, and the Middle Class and upper Middle Class, combined are a clear majority, in the world’s largest population. Even in India, the Middle Class represents a growing bulge of the population. Then we have the West.

In Europe, the Middle Class has been reduced to a narrow band. In North America; the endangered Middle Class is now literally nothing but a sliver of the population, with bulges for only the very wealthy and very poor (our growing population of Homeless people). Note how the mainstream media hides the death of the Middle Class with its slippery propaganda.

…about 120.8 million American adults, or about 50%, live in middle-income households as of early 2015. Meanwhile, 29% and 21% live in lower- and upper-income households, respectively.

We can see the bulges of very poor, and very rich Americans in the chart above. But where is the 50% which supposedly lives in the middle? It (mostly) doesn’t exist. Instead, most of the 50% who are supposedly “middle income” are either rich or poor. The mainstream media pretends the Great Divide does not exist, but the picture above is unequivocal.

However, beyond this original fiction and deception, we see an even more peculiar omission by the mainstream media propaganda machine: the Missing Minority. A small chart (attached to the original headline) hides a large and ugly truth.

Add up the numbers above, and we see this Missing Minority, whose existence the mainstream media refuses to even acknowledge. On the Republican side; we see numbers showing that 90% of Republican supporters believes the party supports either the poor, Middle Class, or rich. What about the other 10%?

Among Democrat supporters; we see that 89% believe the party supports either the poor, Middle Class, or rich. What about the other 11% of respondents of that political stripe? More pertinently; whom do the Missing Minority believe that the two U.S. political parties actually support?

Note that this Missing Minority is not merely some statistical “rounding error”. In the simple poll above; the margin of error is (at most) 1.5%. Thus the Missing Minority represents between 8.5% and 11.5% of Republican supporters, and between 9.5% and 12.5% of Democrat supporters. It is a significant Minority.

It is equally clear that the Missing Minority do not believe that the U.S.’s two-party, tag-team political system support either the poor, Middle Class, or rich. What is left? Who is left? The mainstream media refuses to express the opinion of the Missing Minority explicitly, but we can do so via logical implication.

Implicitly, the Missing Minority are referring to a Secret Minority, neither “poor” nor “Middle Class” nor “rich”. By necessary implication; this Secret Minority must be either below the poor, or above the rich.

Logic tells us the Secret Minority cannot be below the poor, for a very simple reason: it is impossible to hide poverty. Therefore, this Secret Minority must be above the rich, since it is possible to hide wealth. Here, further assistance comes in the form of a previous piece.

In that article; the existence of a Secret Minority above the rich is proven, via the (incomplete) aggregate data on global wealth which exists in the public domain. We learned that the supposed “world’s richest” people (on lists which are circulated by the same media propaganda machine) are nothing but the B-List Billionaires. Above them is the Secret Minority, hidden from all public scrutiny: the Oligarch Trillionaires, secret holders of most of the world’s wealth.

To prevent any public attention from being focused upon these secret oligarchs, we see the propaganda machine (which serves those oligarchs) refusing to allow the Missing Minority to express their opinion, even in the generic form of “none of the above”.

A Missing Minority of the U.S. population consider both U.S. political parties to be in the service of a Secret Minority: the ultra-wealthy oligarchs. But you will never learn this truth directly from the mainstream media.