“but halacha goes by majority opinion.”
Please forgive this flippant remark in advance.
The majority opinion is to carry on shabbos without an eru. Most jews in the world are not yet shomer shabbos and follow “rabbis” who not only permit carrying in the street on shabbos, they permit doing so even where there is no eruv. The greater toeles in this thread would be to steer the discussion towards, how do we reach out to those people and get them to recognize there is a shabbos and there is an issue with carrying in the street, instead of hurling half truths, rumor and innuendo about Rabbonim of this and the previous generation.