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Sheeple (a portmanteauof "sheep" and "people") is a derogatory term that highlights the herd behavior of people easily controlled by a governing power which likens them to sheep, a herd animal that is easily led about. The Wall Street Journal first reported the label in print in 1984; the reporter heard the word used by the proprietor of the American Opinion bookstore. The metaphor of sheep standing for the clueless public believing everything their political masters told them was used by George Orwell in his fable Animal Farm.

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