> Those people that were shouted down continued to hold the same ideas except they hid them and acted silently. This same phenomenon happened just this last el

> Those people that were shouted down continued to hold the same ideas except they hid them and acted silently. This same phenomenon happened just this last election. Only one candidate was allowed to be publicly supported. Publicly supporting the other carried the risk of being shamed, labeled (bigot, fascist, etc.), or even being fired from your job. By all metrics Hillary was winning. But the silenced portion of the population didn't change their minds after being shouted down and shamed; they, as you said, "hid [their ideas] and acted silently"