> Yes, you can always invent self-serving narratives... Sure you can but that's not the argument posed -- saying "the silent majority" is a mere illusion total

> Yes, you can always invent self-serving narratives... Sure you can but that's not the argument posed -- saying "the silent majority" is a mere illusion totally discounts that most people aren't a member of radical {left,right} leaning groups who make a bunch of noise and get the headlines. This kind of reasoning is basically "you're either with us or against us" and serves no useful purpose in reasonable debates. > Twenty years ago nobody really understood how dangerous plastics are... They totally did.