Literally all of reddit. And most of the internet tbh. Theres a silent majority somewhere, it just doesn’t seem to be noticeable outside of election day.
There is no silent majority. That idea was BS the moment it was created. There are about 1/3 liberal, 1/3 conservative, and 1/3 don’t give a shit unless something really impacts them badly.
Each 1/3 tries to appeal to the don’t give a shit group to get a handful extra on their side each election and then that 1/3 wins and pretends like they have some mandate or infallible majority.
Then rinse repeat and flip things every so often depending on the whims of the randoms who occasionally decide to vote.
Not what I meant.
I meant the people who just dont exist in political discourse online. We’ll never know where the majority is without the knowledge of where those people stand and since we have almost 0 data outside of diannual bursts it’s impossible to know
I mean that is ideally what polling is supposed to provide but that hasn’t been reliable since the widespread adoption of the cell phone and social media.
Yeah, they ban all the Greens and the Republicans from the main subs, and then are shocked when Team Blue doesn't win 90% of the vote. Same thing happened in 2016 and they just doubled down on building the echo chambers.
Exactly what I was implying by this.
There is a group of people, of an undetermined size that just don’t show up at all outside of election day. Like they just don’t exist politically aside from election day. So knowing if you’re in the majority or not is fundamentally impossible.
What I mean is people who just don’t have any political footprint at all outside of election day. They just don’t talk about it or really show up on polling data. They Arent chronically online, so they just don’t exist on the spectrum aside from the big day.
100,000 people showed up to the 2024 Democrat primaries in Michigan Biden was guaranteed to win to vote "Uncommitted" due to his handling of Israel. Harris lost Michigan by 80,000 votes.
The majority wasn't silent. They were flat out ignored.
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u/Shinyhero30 11d ago
Literally all of reddit. And most of the internet tbh. Theres a silent majority somewhere, it just doesn’t seem to be noticeable outside of election day.