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Posted on 07/19/2021 3:27:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
The "silent majority" was mentioned by President Nixon in 1969, who labeled middle Americans who weren't protesting the Vietnam war or joining the counter culture — two activities being over-reported by the media of the day. The silent majority didn't speak up much but respected traditional American values with a good-natured approach to political issues.
They were silent, but they voted. In 1972, Nixon was re-elected with one of the largest landslides in U.S. history — 520 electoral votes to only 17 for McGovern.
Today, most Americans focus on work and family and trust that our elected officials will work for us, and if they don't, the folks who pay attention to such stuff will vote them out.
But after five years of hysteria over Donald Trump, the media have hyped so many radical liberal causes to the point where many conservative Americans feel they are an endangered minority. If we speak up, we feel we will be ridiculed or ostracized by our friends and co-workers or even lose our jobs. People with conservative bumper stickers have had their cars vandalized, and those wearing patriotic clothing have been harassed and physically assaulted.
There are so many issues that face us that we can easily be overwhelmed and simply give up on political discourse, which furthers the idea that liberals rule the day.
But the silent majority in the United States is waking up — not in a uniform manner, but on an issue-by-issue basis. They know what their eyes are seeing on the nightly news, and they aren't fooled one bit by blatant liberal spin.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What happens when you silence and censor half of America and call us terrorists for loving God and our country.
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
— Yamamoto
That’s what is needed for Americans, to go to war like they did in WWII.
“Behind every blade of grass”
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Amen.
Everyday I watch the seething sh*tshow with mounting anger and rage.
From Jao, the sphincter with feet, to the lowly school flunky, they are almost all an enemy who have earned only contempt and not respect.
Angry? You don’t know the half of it.
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Hopefully the Republican state parties will find good candidates for every position from Governor to dog catcher and beat the drum that we need to take back our government and get it off our backs.
People are fed up with being censored and lied too. They may not speak loudly but given a chance they will speak with their votes. With a solid majority in both houses of Congress we can defeat Slow Joe and the commies until 2024. Meanwhile, the depth of our federal possibilities grows in the several states.
Sorry, but until the disconnect with this silent majority which obliviously fails to see what the Democrat Party has become while voting for them is resolved, nothing will get better.
Many older people in my old, conservative Baptist church continue to vote Democrat while maintaining all the right conservative stances otherwise. There are tens of millions of these types. It boggles the mind.
If we haven’t awakened by now, we never will.
If the stolen election didn’t do it I am not sure what will. As has been said many times, ourr founding fathers would have been shooting long before now.
...behind every blade of grass.
Who knew?
I agree.
But, that victory had nothing to do with a 'silent majority' turning out in record numbers. Quite the opposite, in fact. Voter turn-out in 1972 was down 5-points from where it was 4-years earlier. 1972 began the down turn in voter participation that lingered through the remainder of the 20th century and into the 21st century. Prior to 1972, voter participation was routinely 60% or better. It was 60.7% in 1968, a number that wouldn't be equaled or surpassed until just last year.
The uncomfortable reality is the sleeping giant of voters that loves liberty and individual freedom simply doesn't exist. The higher the turnout, the better Dems do, not Republicans. There's a few reasons with this, but I think you can mostly blame FDR and his creation of the so-called social safety net. The laziest people are also the people most dependent on government largess. When Dems figure out a way to motivate (incentivize & bribe) these people to the polls, we lose. It's simply a function of math. There are more of them than there is of us. Really, the only exception has been 1996, a year that saw one of the lowest voter participation measurements in history. I have to wonder if it weren't for Perot and a uninspiring GOP candidate, if Clinton wouldn't have lost, comfortably.
PING!
I think 2022 is setting up to be another 1994 or 2010, both where a lot of patriotic Americans came out to vote in big numbers, after seeing the first 2 years of radical administrations.
CSA II without the slavery thing as a moral cudgel.
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