A useful idiot or useful fool is a pejorative description of a person, suggesting that the person thinks they are fighting for a cause without fully comprehending the consequences of their actions, and who does not realize they are being manipulated by the cause's leaders or by other political players.
The term was often used during the Cold War in the Western bloc to describe non-communists regarded as susceptible to communist propaganda and psychological manipulation.
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| Modern 'useful idiots' |
To Propagandize The West, Lenin Recruited A Corps Of “Useful Idiots. The term is actually not Lenin's, but that of economist Ludwig von Mises. These foot soldiers would push his revolution in every country — co-opting and subverting democratic processes, fomenting strikes, installing secret armies and, above all, propagandizing according to Moscow's dictates. Dictators from Hitler to Stalin to Mao to Xi have all understood the importance of propaganda. To maintain their power, they had to fool their own people and people on the outside.
Today, international News syndicates and Broadcasting companies are using the same tactics – they manipulate the masses with their lies, half-truths or one-sided news. They rely on the 'useful' idiots – from highly educated people to actors to prime-ministers to the lay-man - to believe the lies that Hamas is an 'innocent' political party and Israel and the Jews are the villains.
Here's another example of another group of more 'useful (and competely brainwashed) idiots', on their way to 'rescue' the people in Gaza from those 'evil' Jews.....
