On #ThisDayInHistory in 1969, #RichardNixon first used the phrase #SilentMajority in a speech about #VietnamWar protests. Since #Nixon's day it has become a staple of the American right, being used to push policies they know are unpopular while claiming an invisible mandate.

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This is the point in Democracy where you find out what your friends & coworkers parents actually do for a living.

#shutdown #govtech #government #silentmajority

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TRUMP & THE FASCISTS NEVER HAD A MAJORITY

and are scared of the consequences of a Sleepy Town USA with 1,000 having 300 of them on the streets protesting him by name and calling him a fascist.

that’s 30% of a Sleepy Town USA the #GOP cannot use anymore to manufacture electoral votes. that’s a Sleepy Town USA the fascists can’t use to have #ACAB #ICE #USMIL kill in their names.

American fascists have never been a #SilentMajority & #NoKings proves that.

previously:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/114651845482752127

TRUMP NEVER HAD A #SILENTMAJORITY OF FASCISTS

since Reagan & Bush, Republicans had #Saudi #OPEC money behind them. then Bush II called USA a zionist country and the Saudis taught him a lesson. so he made friends with the new oligarch from the old Soviet block, Putin.

Trump doesn’t take sides, only money. so he has the dubious distinction of uniting the USA oligarchy with both Russia & OPEC.

that’s why he is in power: for a handful of milliardaires & their millionaire plantation managers

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WHY ARE TRUMP & #MAGA AFRAID OF SUBURBAN PROTESTS?

that 3% necessary to effect political change has been surpassed in many communities across the country, especially in states controled by them. when there’s 5%, 10% of “boring” white Americans using #NoKings to vent their #antifa rage, it means fascists can’t use the smokes & mirrors of the #SilentMajority

fascists spent 50 yrs buying up media, sports, music, arts, politicians to make it look they are the mainstream. they aren't.

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Thinking about the tiny crowd sizes at #Trump rallies, compared to the massive size of #Harris rallies, I don't think it's a good indicator of #VoterTurnout: it just means is that his cult of personality has shrunk to the point that fewer people are clamoring to see him. If we compare it with the #polls, it means most people who say they plan to #vote for him who are no longer engaged enough to see him.

This feels like a reflection of a bigger problem that we've had trying to get some democratic solution to #DonaldTrump: so many of his voters are completely unengaged with every part of the system. They are impossible to reach or argue with because they don't leave the house or ask questions, and when you do get to talk about politics with them, they're immersed in #misinformation and conspiracy theories, or have simply decided all #politicians are equally corrupt and don't see a point.

They're not just a #SilentMajority, they're what #SerjTankian called the "#UnthinkingMajority".

There’s a New “Silent Majority” Out There—and It Is Not Conservative

Ever since Richard Nixon used the phrase, it’s been a Republican thing. But the Republicans are the extremists now, and the Silent Majority isn’t what it was in 1969.

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The #SilentMajority is the Canadian girlfriend of politics.