I can’t say I understand the phenomena of a large and usually vehement voters’ group going oddly silent during this election cycle, but then, human beings have often been a puzzlement to those who observe from outer space; it’s their quixotic-ness, humans’ extreme inventiveness, their cleverness, but sometimes an odd dullness, all in one, that are such seeming contradictions.
For instance, Earth groups in the USA which are normally vociferous and unrelentingly so during their election cycles on Planet Earth, at this time have become mysteriously silent.
One such group, called variously, The Religious Right, and Evangelical Thunder has, in the past, been normally quoted and requoted time and again ad infinitum and some say, ad nauseum, during election cycles. But now this group made of conservative Christians and conservative Catholics numbering more than 60 million persons, has been mysteriously mum.
The leaders of the groups have seemingly never met an MSM microphone they didn’t like, but somehow seem to have shied away this time. Noticeably so. Remarkably so.
Prudence? Shyness? Reticence on the groups’ parts?
Or something more covert; not showing one’s hand til the last moment/voting day? Don’t shoot ’til you see the whites of their eyes? Say nothing because one’s time-honored prejudices run deep and it wouldn’t be fitting to air such antediluvian ideas in public?
Perhaps altogether these groups possess a voting strategy similar to a phenomenon developed by the inhabitants of Jansenia, a far off confederation at the juncture of Libertinia, Despairia, and Calvinia…. the Jansenians developed a form of gunpowder that makes no sound even as it explodes across the land… thereby unleashing more power than the opponent ever imagined, and at the last minute, making its devastating incursions… causing those in the know to mark the Jansenians as formidable– and hidden opponents– who spring out at the 11:59 hour.
Because of this current idiosyncratic and ongoing silence of a formerly fierce and verbal set of tribal groups, from near or far, one might wonder: Is there a silent devastating power lurking underground that no one is paying attention to… one that will be unleashed on Election Day on Earth?
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1. There are other groups which are noted to be silent at this time, during a time of normally rather loud public exchange during a democratic process… such as the Neo-Nazi groups, the anti-immigration groups, the John Birch Society members, the David Duke followers, and so on.
2. Jansenia, a place turned over by a bout with the Black Plague, and thus afterward, developed odd defensive and offensive weaponry to attempt to keep death– and ideological and actual enemies– at bay. Written by Pere Zacherie de Lisieux, 1660.