The phrase "the multitude is" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: The multitude is growing restless, eager to see the awaited concert.
That's a shame, because empowering those they call "the multitude" is what their program is supposedly about.
What they don't understand is that the multitude is able to organise itself without a centre – that the imposition of a leader or being co-opted by a traditional organisation would undermine its power.
This interpretation focuses on Machiavelli's various pro-republican remarks, such as his statement that the multitude is wiser and more constant than a prince and his emphasis in the Discourses on Livy on the republican virtue of self-sacrifice as a way of combating corruption.
He criticizes Hesiod on specifics: "The teacher of the multitude is Hesiod; they believe he has the greatest knowledge who did not comprehend day and night: for they are one" (B57).
The poll suggests that the multitude was quite misled.
He sings as if the adoration of the multitude were a forfeit.
The Times said, "The enthusiasm of the multitude was beyond all expression".
And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
In Wainwright's words: "The grassy western slope trodden by the multitudes is of little interest, but the fell should not be judged accordingly: it is made of sterner stuff.
And at a baseball game in Brooklyn between the Superbas, as the team that became the Dodgers was known then, and John McGraw's New York Giants, the multitudes were howling.
In theory, investors should look past the headlines to the substance, but if the multitudes are treating the headlines as important news it's hard for any individual investor not to do likewise.
