The silent majority in software

This original silent majority was a victim of Soviet propaganda. Nothing is better in war when the enemy no longer wants to fight because he has self-doubt.

> The “silent majority” was used by President Richard Nixon during his presidency and his campaign against the Vietnam war.

Excuse me? The "silent majority" was the set of Americans who were for the war, not (loudly) protesting against it. Nixon was all for continuing the war.

> Usually, the comments on HN/Reddit are polarised by a single group of people who have the same opinion,

Can't speak for Reddit, but that's not at all the case here. For example, I often speak of my hatred of microservices here. I'll get some upvotes and agreement, some people telling me it's a dumb opinion, and some people telling me we're doing it wrong and explain their right way. Believe it or not, I learn a lot from different people and their experiences.

I can't think of a single topic that seems to be prevelant here that doesn't have a sizeable amount of disagreement, in fact. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

> The “silent majority” was used by President Richard Nixon during his presidency and his campaign against the Vietnam war. He spoke to the people who were not actively voicing their opinions and who were overshadowed by the vocal few who were supporting the war.

This is a shocking misunderstanding of history. The “silent majority” Nixon spoke of were folks opposed to anti-war protests. Nixon intentionally prolonged the war for political gain- killing additional thousands of people.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nixon-prolonged-vi...

If you ever find yourself about to say that Nixon did something that a non-evil person would do, you’d better triple check your facts.