# Big ...Us?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-us/795604>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 6, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-us/795604 "2017-09-06T01:22:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-us/795604/1 "2017-09-06T01:22:04Z")

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I’ always heard of Big XXX to describe some scary, overpowered, monolithic organization dedicated to profit/power and screw the little guy.

Big Government, Big Tobacco, Big Oil, etc.  
Has anyone derisively used “Big General Population”…in one way or another… as a term to express contempt?

Is anybody threatened by “The People”?

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**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-us/795604/2 "2017-09-06T01:25:50Z")

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No & No. But I really wanted to post in your thread.

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-us/795604/3 "2017-09-06T01:45:51Z")

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We have other terms. “The Masses.” “The great unwashed.”

The Teeming Millions 😉

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-us/795604/4 "2017-09-06T02:43:32Z")

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You could this board Big Dope.

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-us/795604/5 "2017-09-06T02:51:28Z")

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Common clay of the New World…

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-us/795604/6 "2017-09-06T02:55:22Z")

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> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> Common clay of the New World…

You know…morons. 😃

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-us/795604/7 "2017-09-06T03:09:13Z")

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[Tyranny of the Masses.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority)

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**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-us/795604/8 "2017-09-06T07:36:07Z")

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> [@Enola\_Straight](#):
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> I’ always heard of Big XXX to describe some scary, overpowered, monolithic organization dedicated to profit/power and screw the little guy.
> 
> Big Government, Big Tobacco, Big Oil, etc.  
> Has anyone derisively used “Big General Population”…in one way or another… as a term to express contempt?
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> Is anybody threatened by “The People”?

> [@Enola\_Gay](#):
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> No & No. But I really wanted to post in your thread.

Must quit/start drinking…

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-us/795604/9 "2017-09-07T00:02:15Z")

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While the USA has the third largest population in the world, there are now 14 more countries right behind us with at least a quarter of the US population. There is where to look if you fear the masses. Indonesia could pass us in a decade or so, and we are already outnumbered, together, by Filipinos, Egyptians, Vietnamese and Ethiopians.