[Auntie Mame]

..ever notice when ever a lib talks they almost always refer to "many others", or "as many have spoke"....they always have to bolster their point as though it's common place,overall opinion, which of course, it's not...

This was commonly used in Communist Russia, in their newspaper Pravda. Their way to say it was, "As is well known......"

[Eddie01]

VI
Thou shalt create and maintain a shared illusion of unanimity concerning judgement conforming to the majority view