All through August and now through half of September, we've been "treated" to repeated doses of Town-Hall-Screamies and the Conventional Stoopid that says "Americans are opposed to Health Care Reform", "the public option is dead", blah blah blah.
Meanwhile, if we actually look at public opinion surveys, the general revelation therefrom is exactly the opposite of all that CW bleating!!!
Now, from the often interesting columns of Marketwatch.com (a Dow Jones joint, no less) there came just the other day a column by Darrell Delamaide which articulated something I've been thinking, and waiting for the likes of our own Kossack Keith or Rippin' Rachel Maddow to lift up and promote toward the front ranks of memery.
Come below the fold for more details!
Here's the link to Mr. Delamaide's Piece on marketwatch.com
I'll just post one "teaser" blockquote, and hope you'll go read the whole piece and begin a robust discussion here about how we mere blogistani netizens can push this meme/theme into the front ranks of media attention, with an aim to replace the "Screamers are the Masses" Crap-o-la with a zeitgeist sketch we can believe in and which President Obama and congressional progressives can surf on in their quest to bring home the best possible bill sometime this fall!
Thanks for your attention!
And now, the teaser blockquote from Mr. Delamaide:
The term silent majority has since come to be associated with a conservative, Republican electorate that may keep quiet during a shrill debate but will show up at the polls and use the voice that counts.
It might be time, with all the vocal protests now coming from the right, to apply the term to a new 'silent majority' to the left and center that is currently drowned out by a vocal minority expressing increasingly extreme views via a broken mainstream media.