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That "minor detail" seems to rankle the congregation quite a bit because they can't seem to accept certain realities and prefer to manufacture their own.
The whole "forty-seven percent" narrative speaks to a form of denial that is well beyond pathological.

Put in perspective, the majority of that so called forty-seven percent once had well paying and secure jobs which placed them in a tax bracket which classified them as legitimate productive members of a capitalist society.
Such persons are reluctant to just toss that off and just become bums for the sheer fun of it, thus their cumulative number represents a fairly looming sector of society that no longer reaps the benefit of what it sows. Indeed, most in that forty-seven percent still work and work hard. They just get paid meager wages now and can't make ends meet.

That must be mighty frightening news, so why not just generate some cover which will divide and conquer instead?