Ashwin Dixit"The Silent Majority" is a ruse that some politicians have created to create the perception that they have more public support than they actually do.
"You didn't get enough votes in the preliminary polls. How are you going to win the election?"
"Oh, I have the support of the majority. They're just... silent. They like to suffer in silence, and so they don't show up in polls. They are my base though. They are the strong, silent, hard-working people who registered to vote and will vote for me in the election."
This is a lie! In a Democracy, people are empowered to either vote, or abstain from voting, intentionally.
In reality, there is "The Silenced Majority", an underclass of poor people, some of them homeless, who are deliberately kept disenfranchised. There are so many systemic hurdles that prevent them from voting; paperwork to register to vote ( which marginalized people may not have ), or the sheer struggle of daily survival on the street. Being able to vote is a luxury one cannot afford, if one is fatigued from sleeping outside, not getting proper meals, and healthcare, let alone reliable information about the elections, candidates, public issues, and the solutions each platform promises. When a body is tired hungry, sleep deprived, stressed from not having regular showers or healthcare, the mind is not functioning well. Their executive functioning is so impaired, that voting to express one's preferences as a co-equal citizen of a Democracy, is a far cry. A homeless person is looking for their immediate needs, the next meal, a toilet, someplace to rest/sleep safely, medicine / medical care, and sometimes, an angry fix. They could not vote if they wanted to.
These people are kept down, because their suffering serves as a visible example to the middle class. The message to the middle class is - be a good worker, tolerate a toxic workplace, a job that slowly kills you, and don't ask for more. Obey the law, and cooperate with the police. If you fall out of line, you could become homeless like that person on the street you walk past every day. Enjoy your little material comforts, your bread and circuses ( pizza & football ), watch TV and media, and stay entertained. Be grateful to your capitalist masters, and don't unionize.
The upper class throws just enough crumbs from their table to make the middle class into happy slaves with Stockholm Syndrome, loyal to their bosses, anti-union and bourgeois in their political mindset, led around like sheep by mainstream media, supporting military spending and war, from being fed a steady diet of nationalistic propaganda. They often think that the system is fair, media tells the truth, cops protect them, courts deliver Justice, government means them well, and wars are fought for their benefit. They might look on the lower class, the homeless, with contempt, calling them lazy drunks and addicts, ungrateful and unpatriotic. Or they might throw them some pocket change to soothe their own malaise.
"Football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizons of their minds. They were easy to control."
~ George Orwell.
This is how even well meaning voters are turned into bourgeoisie bootlickers, pawns of the elite, security guards, soldiers, lawyers, accountants, clerks, janitors, maids, delivery people, burger flippers, or workers filling any number of menial or meaningless roles, for little pay, with the illusion of freedom, sold on the ideals of nationalism, without feeling much solidarity with the homeless, and without a thought of standing up for their rights.
This is a Fake Democracy, a rigged system, political theater put on for the middle class, by the upper class.
This Divide & Rule strategy of the elite is what maintained the hierarchical pyramid of proto-democratic society.
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