Quote: Originally Posted By leppykahn on 12/02/2009
Who best exemplifies the "silent majority?"
That is like asking who would be a best secret admirer. You do not see them.
Everytime the City of Warren (My Home) decides to do anything I know a handful of people will be at the next Coucil meeting. Depending on the issue certain ones will be there. No Silent Majority there.
When I have talked to these people they always expressed a following that tells them to fight these battles. Their friends and neighbors who tell them problems and hope that they will take up the cause.
I had always wondered about the truth to these stories. Then one day I posted in the GD forum. I forgot what I complained about first. There was a group of people who snapped my head off. They told my why I was an idiot for bringing it up. I disagreed and stood my ground. Then something amazing happened. People sitemailed me supporting me. They said they didnt want to fight this battle, but they believed in what I said. I was encouraged and not only was I fighting my battles, but people suggested things and if I liked their ideas I fought those battles too (Carryover Reform was all me).
These people asked not to be identified, as they didnt want to be part of the battle. They either didnt have the time or the patience to deal with the people attacking me. I dubbed them the Top Coach Mafia. The term wasnt 100% accurate, I am not really sure what it means, but I now had a label for my enemy. The rest is WIS History.
So when you ask for who is the silent majority. It is the single Mother who wants to make the world a better place for her children but needs the help of a hired gun, it is the soldier in WWII who dubbed a goofy drawing "Kilroy" to let people know that we were there, it is the unemployed factory worker who cannot take the time to complain about an abandoned car with wild animals in it because he is fighting to provide for his family, it is the everyman, the no one, the John Doe.
The silent majority is the army of 1 to 1 million that needs a voice in the night!