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Useful Idiots (or Willing Idiots) are those people who were willing to naively believe a person or group with the ultimate goal of appeasement. Its origin lied in westerners who were willing sympathizers with the
Soviet Union.
Speech Relevance
In '
Encroaching Control' Reagan speaks of
Lenin and how:
Lenin, determined the idea that the communist party never would be a large party. That it would be a hard, small, professional cadre. That only those people who had proven themselves would be allowed membership and this small professional cadre would, as he said, manipulate and use the masses when they were needed and he referred to us as the masses, we were the willing idiots.
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