Roger L. Simon
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...... 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.”...............To Read More....
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