Useful Idiots and Idiots

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“Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today.”

~ Professor Bruce Thornton, Cal State Fresno

I seldom watch TV anymore, other than sporting events; I have no use for a woeful medium that so willfully damaged our beloved America and continues to do so with amoral programming and station to station disinformation called the network news. The other night, while channel surfing during a "Monday Night Football" time out, I happened upon “Boston Legal” just in time to hear one of the characters call those Americans who didn't vote for Barrack Hussein Obama, idiots. Idiots!

The fifty percent of America who see this man for what he is are idiots in the minds of the smug fools of Hollywood, the most dysfunctional community on the planet. When you think of it, it makes perfect sense that a group of modern day useful idiots, effete snobs who spend their lives peddling style over substance would be enamored by and vote for Obama, the quintessential embodiment of style over substance. Oh yes, we are the idiots, not the histrionic Oprah Winfrey, the orgasmic Chris Mathews, the incomprehensible babbler Sean Penn nor the bile-spewing Jeremiah Wright and Keith Olberman. No, we are idiots because we love America and the ideals that made her strong.

We are idiots but they are the intelligentsia because they had the vision to allow themselves to be led by a media devoid of any objectivity. They alone saw the wisdom of appeasing a European faction that hates Am...

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... it’s the same global world of financial equality envisioned by Karl Marx. Idiot that I am, I see this as inconsistent with our freedom to pursue life, liberty and happiness, and I see the same philosophy that destroyed the Soviet Union and has Europe awash in a sea of entitlements and mired in a socialist morass. I am clearly too dimwitted to understand how this will be good for America and her citizens, perhaps Charlie Gibson can explain it to me.

© Peter J. Hynes 2008

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“Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today.”

~ Professor Bruce Thornton, Cal State Fresno

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