The 'Silent Majority' Is Rapidly Becoming the 'Angry Majority'

By Jack Gleason – 7/22/21

Just like the famous line from the movie “Network” where the hero shouts, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” Americans are waking up to the insane new reality where everything they held dear is under unrelenting attack from the Left and the murky forces behind them.

We used to be the “silent majority.” The phrase was used by President Nixon in 1969, who talked about middle Americans who weren’t protesting the Viet Nam war or joining the counter culture – which were the pet stories by the media of the day.  They didn’t speak up much – they respected traditional American values with a good-natured approach to political issues.

They were silent, but they voted.  In 1972, Nixon was reelected with one of the largest landslides in U.S. history – 520 electoral votes to only 17 for McGovern. 

Today, most Americans simply focus on work and family and trust that our elected officials will work FOR us, and if they don’t, we hope the folks who pay attention to such “political stuff” will vote them out.

But after five years of constant irrational hysteria and lies about Donald Trump, the media has 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 have been harassed and assaulted in public just for wearing patriotic clothing.

There are so many issues that face us, we can easily be overwhelmed and just give up on political discourse, furthering the idea that it’s the liberals who 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 B.S.

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