Useful Idiot
Often attributed to Vladimir Lenin - the term Useful Idiot (полезный
идиот) - is typically a citizen of a non-communist country sympathetic to the
Soviet Union who is susceptible to propaganda and is cynically exploited. It isn’t clear if Lenin actually coined this
term or not - yet Russian espionage and propaganda operatives continue to use it to refer
to individuals in the West who have been successfully manipulated.
Related to Idiotarian - a prominent individual
who is both very wrong and very loud. Generally
an individual that is so far out of the mainstream so as to be fringe. Consider: Revs. Falwell, Robertson,
Jackson and Sharpton.
Can also include morons
who argue with other morons over the internet.
A collection of idiots is called a congress.
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