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Proud liberal 80

(4,167 posts) Thu Oct 22, 2020, 11:24 PM Oct 2020

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I am so sick of the "Silent Majority" phrase [View all]

For one, they aren’t silent....they are the loudest and most obnoxious people in this country, and like messing up their cars with dumb bumper stickers....Second, they aren’t the majority which has been proven with losing the popular vote in 6 of the last 7 POTUS elections....and also being outvoted in House and Senate elections (but due to gerrymandering in the House, and small states in the Senate they stay in power)

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I am so sick of the "Silent Majority" phrase [View all] Proud liberal 80 Oct 2020 OP

I always called them "The Tyranny of the Minority." Jspur Oct 2020 #1

Much like the "moral majority" they are neither... Wounded Bear Oct 2020 #2

Well, the breakdown of the GOP is going to "silence" them some more. nt Progressive Jones Oct 2020 #3

They are not nearly a majority C_U_L8R Oct 2020 #4

When the press sees the Blue Wave, we will no longer be called "silent" RainCaster Oct 2020 #5

The phrase was worn when Spiro Agnew used it DBoon Oct 2020 #6

We're the majority. That silent majority shit was almost 40 years ago. Greybnk48 Oct 2020 #7

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