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‘Walking On Eggshells’: 62% Of Americans Are Afraid To Express Political Views, Survey Finds
Daily Caller ^ | 7/22/2020 | Benjamin Nichols

Posted on 07/23/2020 10:58:11 AM PDT by Zenyatta

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1 posted on 07/23/2020 10:58:11 AM PDT by Zenyatta
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To: Zenyatta

Trump wins in a landslide. If the Dems are afraid to talk it ain’t because they support Biden.


2 posted on 07/23/2020 10:59:52 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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My thinking as well.


3 posted on 07/23/2020 11:01:34 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: Zenyatta

I call complete bullshit to libs being afraid of ANYTHING except being labeled STUPID for their political views.

on the other hand, conservatives are rightly afraid of losing their jobs, having their property ruined and/or being physically attacked or killed.


4 posted on 07/23/2020 11:01:34 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Zenyatta

The good thing about not having any Democrat friends is you don’t have to listen to them smugly expressing their virtue.


5 posted on 07/23/2020 11:01:53 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: Zenyatta

Not afraid, just smart enough to not bother. Most of the 62% are too busy stocking up to be running their yaps.


6 posted on 07/23/2020 11:02:05 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Zenyatta

High fives all around at the DNC


7 posted on 07/23/2020 11:03:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Zenyatta

Not since a Bush/Cheney bumper sticker got my new Acura SUV keyed: both sides and back.


8 posted on 07/23/2020 11:03:32 AM PDT by JT Hatter (Who is Barack Obama? And What is He Really Up To?)
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To: Zenyatta
Silencing the majority is an absolutely essential goal of all communist and fascist revolutionaries. Therefore those people who allow themselves to be silenced by the tactics of intimidation are playing right into the hands of their enemies. “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
9 posted on 07/23/2020 11:03:34 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (No foreign enemy is as dangerous as the Democrat Party and its supporters.)
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Among Republicans, it’s more like 75% are afraid to state their views.

That’s a lot of silent Trump voters. A whole lot.


10 posted on 07/23/2020 11:04:11 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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If I were younger, with my career ahead of me, I would keep my opinions to myself. I’d only share with people I trust. No way I’d tweet, facebook, instagram, or whatever webbydoodle thing is out there. If you work for someone else, you never know when someone with power will see, and not like your views.

I’m at the end of my career, so I share a lot of stuff on FB, with my real name. It upsets my oldest son who has drifted left, (a liberal girlfriend will do that). I don’t care. Like it, or ignore it, it’s what I believe.


11 posted on 07/23/2020 11:06:30 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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How can anyone vote to continue living like that?


12 posted on 07/23/2020 11:06:58 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Zenyatta

which is why polls are useless


13 posted on 07/23/2020 11:07:18 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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Very true-”...conservatives are rightly afraid of losing their jobs, having their property ruined and/or being physically attacked or killed.”

Where I work-I’d sure be kicked out...and I have already parted ways with some relatives.


14 posted on 07/23/2020 11:07:22 AM PDT by SMARTY (Freedom from effort in the present means effort has been stored up, in the past. T Roosevelt)
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To: Zenyatta

I’m not ‘afraid’ to, I just don’t see much point in it.


15 posted on 07/23/2020 11:08:55 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Masks are not about controlling a virus. Masks are about controlling people.)
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Yeah, one can get terminated very quickly.


16 posted on 07/23/2020 11:08:58 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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Of course. What do you expect will happen when all those right winger gangs are out burning and looting and boycotting your business because they don’t like your political views.

Oops, darn spellcheck turned my “left” into a “right”. Has Google infected FR?


17 posted on 07/23/2020 11:10:32 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat
Silencing the majority is an absolutely essential goal of all communist and fascist revolutionaries. Therefore those people who allow themselves to be silenced by the tactics of intimidation are playing right into the hands of their enemies. “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Yes and we are witnessing what a Marxist and Fascist revolution looks like and it's ugly and evil! I've been speaking out whenever I have the opportunity and have lost several friends in the process, progressives who are knowingly ignorant and are supportive of this evil. Anybody who supports this chaos is in bed with Satan!

18 posted on 07/23/2020 11:10:59 AM PDT by rochester_veteran (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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The good thing about not having any Democrat friends is you don’t have to listen to them smugly expressing their virtue.
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My acquaintances and relatives who “may” lean to the Left have been taught in various ways to NEVER express a single word in my presence supportive of any anti-American, liberal, progressive, socialist, communist bullsh*t!


19 posted on 07/23/2020 11:12:35 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (No foreign enemy is as dangerous as the Democrat Party and its supporters.)
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To: Zenyatta

As a Boomer I remember as a kid reading about J. Edgar Hoover battling Communists (his book Masters of Deceit) , writer Mickey Spillane punching one of them during a confrontation on a NYC dock and the guy fell into the river, and how good it was to be in America where we could speak our minds unlike the Soviets and Mao’s Chinese.

We should “thank” the lousy Dems for taking our freedoms away. People have to carefully see who’s watching or listening now. Woman last week on Rush said “I had to shut my door and no one knows I am talking with you now here at work.”

Will soon get much worse.


20 posted on 07/23/2020 11:15:42 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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