Evil eyes.
Certainly a preponderance of citizens are firmly committed to their attitude and not to any set of fixed standards. If they think a thing it must be true because they have thought it. There is no standard by which they can determine the relative merit of one thing over another except their own thoughts, born of their emotional/psychological condition. This makes them uniquely susceptibe to the deceits of tyrants.
We must, if we are to survive as a free people, learn to confront and dissuade those who value nothing from their foolishness.