Bewildered masses

[Jessica]

Originating from Walter [Lippmans] commentating on [mass culture], the bewildered herd is the masses that are tamed through propaganda and mass media in order that the machine of democracy is kept properly oiled.
The [bewildered masses] must be subdued, tamed, and injected with the popular opinion of the upper class of politicians, heads of corporations, and all others belonging to the elite class of intellectuals and wealthy, in order to govern a nation and circumvent any defect in democracy.