"the ignorant masses"
Sounding a bit Marxian here...
I'll bet the crowd is just fine. The ignorant masses, so to speak, would not even show up at the townhall meeting, but would watch some dorky tv show instead.
If they have any brains at all they will see through Weasely.
The two I heard sounded pretty dumb, actually.
But I agree with your point. I don't like to go around calling people "sheeple" and the like.