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Leopolds Ghost

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4. Wonderful!!! I really think there is a 99% "silent majority"

Reply to patrice (Original post)

Thu Feb 23, 2012, 05:19 AM

Feb 2012

That only feels comfortable and safe speaking out in a (historically populist and progressive) place like Kansas when something like the Occupy movement comes along to change the forum of debate. I mean, how many of us have relatives in Red States who are basically "closet" liberal (at least on some issues) but only feel comfortable telling folks like us, and feel pressure from all their peers to be conservative in public?

Not to mention the media peer pressure even on liberals to conform to certain ideas...

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Hello from OccupyKochTown - Fight Tar Sands in collaboration with Sierra Club 2/17-19/12 pt.1 [View all] patrice Feb 2012 OP

I'm thrilled to see all these good people and their groups fighting the pipeline! CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2012 #1

K&R.... What a great group of people... midnight Feb 2012 #2

That's fighting the good fight if there ever was one. UnrepentantLiberal Feb 2012 #3

Wonderful!!! I really think there is a 99% "silent majority" Leopolds Ghost Feb 2012 #4

A frequent response I get when I tell strangers about OccupyKC, which I do at any & patrice Feb 2012 #5