No, I wasn't suggesting that everyone is wrong. Rather, appealing to the "silent majority" without offering any independent arguments assumes that the majority must be right, which is just as fallacious as assuming that the majority must be wrong.

IIRC the Occupy movement didn't argue that the 99% is right because it's the 99%. Rather, the argument was that there are serious socioeconomic problems that affect as much as 99% of the population. People also tried really hard to mobilize as many ordinary citizens as possible so that the majority would no longer be silent. Contrast that with the usual conservative bullshit about how hard-working citizens are too busy with their own productive lives to participate in protests, which implies that silence is a virtue.

> Rather, the argument was that there are serious socioeconomic problems that affect as much as 99% of the population.

Not so fast. Occupy also claims to know something about solutions to those problems.

> Contrast that with the usual conservative bullshit about how hard-working citizens are too busy with their own productive lives to participate in protests, which implies that silence is a virtue.

How about a checkable cite to said "bullshit" from an actual conservative? Citing someone criticizing that stance doesn't count.

Remember the 90-9-1 rule, most of your users are likely to be "lurkers". I'd class a website differently than a political movement..