“We Had a Civil Rights Revolution in This Country in the 1960s. Do You Believe That in the Early Days of That Struggle That Every Leader Who Enjoyed the Same Level of Visibility That Shiller Enjoys Today Spoke Openly About His True Beliefs re the Situation? I Do Not.”

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

Given Shiller’s visibility, he would not be afraid to say anything. In absence of his comments, one can only assume he does not agree with you.

We had a civil rights revolution in this country in the 1960s. Do you believe that in the early days of that struggle that every leader who enjoyed the same level of visibility that Shiller enjoys today spoke openly about his true beliefs re the situation? I do not.

Do you think that every person who enjoys visibility in Hollywood spoke openly about concerns they had re the behavior of Harvey Weinstein? I do not.

Do you think that every scientist who believed that smoking causes cancer spoke openly about their beliefs before it became safe to do so? I do not.

Death threats affect people. Demands for unjustified board bannings affect people. Threats to get academic researchers fired from their jobs affect people. That’s why we have laws against those things. That’s why you Goons employ those things as tactics.

We are as a nation standing on the threshold of achieving the biggest economic advance that we have ever achieved in our history. We are going to make it. But we need to work up the courage to stand up to you Goons to pull it off. I think that we will make it in the days following the next price crash. At that point the price of not speaking up will be so clear that a larger number of us will work up the courage it takes to stand up to your abuse. From that point forward, it will be all downhill sledding.

It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

Progress-Loving Rob