Animal Farm-- Squealer's speech in Ch. 5

[Spoilers ahead for Animal Farm. Be careful. ]

In chapter five, Napoleon unleashed his dogs to chase after Snowball, driving him out of Animal Farm. Trusty Squealer came by to put the animal's doubts at rest by stating,
"I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself. Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"

Now, there's something fishy about his reasoning here. In Animalism, all opinions should be regarded equal to other opinions. After all, isn't that what all animals being equal means? However, this directly contradicts Squealer's following sentences by essentially saying that other animal's opinions will be disregarded in case they make the "wrong decisions". According to the logic here, Napoleon is the one leading the farm and is therefore most qualified for making decisions.
I myself am not too impressed with the reasoning here but I must admit that the effect of manipulation Squealer covers over the animals is well done.

Those poor animals...