Miller: America isn’t dying from silence

Miller: America isn’t dying from silence

A recent column in the Iowa State Daily argued that America is being destroyed by silence, that people are too afraid to talk about politics and that this quiet is somehow more dangerous than policy itself. The column relies mostly on broad statements about fear and division. Those are not proof that the country is collapsing. When someone argues that silence is the greatest threat facing the nation, the burden is to show that this problem is ac…