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BigDemVoter

(4,149 posts)
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 09:29 PM Mar 2020

Anybody remember the term that the fool, Nixon, coined "The Silent Majority"?

He was ostensibly referring to those who had not taken part in any kind of protests against that goddamned wasteful war.

I think we have a new silent majority now. By "silent" I mean that people are fed the FUCK up with Pussy-Grabber and just aren't saying a lot about it. We are going to see a HUMONGOUS turnout in November. . . . No matter how this pie is sliced, there are WAY more of us than there are of those crooks & liars. People know that this is the most consequential election in our lifetimes. The orange-headed Pussy-Grabber has to go. . .

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Anybody remember the term that the fool, Nixon, coined "The Silent Majority"? (Original Post) BigDemVoter Mar 2020 OP
The term also had a very heavy racial component SCantiGOP Mar 2020 #1
I remember the term but evidently tRUMP doesn't and he doesn't even remember what abqtommy Mar 2020 #2

SCantiGOP

(13,869 posts)
1. The term also had a very heavy racial component
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 09:52 PM
Mar 2020

I agree it was primarily about good, middle class Americans versus the hippies protesting in the streets, but it also was used to evoke the good white majority versus the uppity black folks like the Black Panthers and others who were saying they would resort to civil disobedience and/or outright violence if necessary to secure their rights.

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