Author: Roger L. Simon Via Epoch Times
When I was young and just arrived in Los Angeles to make my way in the movie business, a friend, a recent graduate of UCLA film school, was writing a screenplay improbably entitled “Stalin’s Children.”
It was a sympathetic view of the struggles of the young people of that time (1969-70) still devoted to Comrade Stalin, if you can believe that. (Well, maybe now you can.)
Not surprisingly, the script was unreadable and I don’t recall making it beyond page ten, but I’ve been thinking about it recently for its prescience.
The author was no threat to John Huston or Francis Ford Coppola, to put it mildly, but he was a progenitor of something relatively rare in those days but becoming pervasive today: the “useful idiot,” American style.
Sometimes attributed to V. I. Lenin, “useful idiot” is a term of murky provenance.
Nevertheless, its meaning is clear: an ill-informed, easily gulled individual, often of the bourgeoisie, who can be manipulated by the left to support their most nefarious and bloody causes.
These days, “useful idiots” are all around us.
The seemingly-endless proliferation of unquestioning followers of Black Lives Matters is an obvious example.
You would think this would have been executed with some stealth, but that wasn’t necessary for the ultra—naive “useful idiots” whose cluelessness knows no bounds.
BLM is not a covert communist organization, it’s an overt one. Its leadership advertises itself as “trained Marxists” (their words). One of their leaders recently proudly “took no sides” on the violent destruction and escalating black on black murder going on across the country, tantamount to giving it all a nod of approval.
Of perhaps greater importance, ultimately, much of their significant financial support comes via Susan Rosenberg, a convicted domestic terrorist and wannabe cop killer once allied with the Weathermen whose near-life sentence was commuted by Bill Clinton on the last day of his presidency.
Ironically, along with the traditional communist crowd, some white (but no black) Democratic politicians are also raking it in from BLM fundraising. It’s interesting who profits from Black Lives Matter.
But almost no one seems to care, “useful idiots” especially. (One of the rare exceptions being whoever just sprayed the Fifth Avenue Black Lives Matter “mural” with deserved red paint.)
..... This indoctrination lingers on after college, enhanced by the media and by increasingly timid corporations worshipping at the altar of political correctness. No one is encouraged to think for themselves. It’s too risky. The free mind has been captured and imprisoned, ironically, by their schooling, the very thing that was supposed to liberate it.
For now, the excessive violence and destruction coupled with absurd socialist legislation that could have been written in Caracas may prevent the left from assuming immediate power and keep Trump in office for one more term.
But give this educational system a few more years (with most of the GOP continuing to behave like court eunuchs) and we will be past the point of no return. We will fully be a nation of “useful idiots.” .... Full Article @ Epoch Times
Liberal Brainwashing in Public Schools
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