If you've never heard of the term "useful idiot", know that it was the attitude that Vladimir Lenin had among Westerners who viewed the progress of the 1917 Revolution favorably.
Invented by Soviet Russia, this term described people who supported people like Lenin and Stalin as they carried out atrocity after atrocity.
Lenin and the communists looked at these people with great contempt but realized their usefulness in spreading communist propaganda in their countries.
Today, that term refers to leftists and other "progressives" throughout the world - typically (but not exclusively) university students and professors, homosexual activists, feminists, radical environmentalists, leaders of the black/Indian/gypsy/Muslim movements, and others.
These people, for the most part, are not idiots in the true sense of the term, but rather people who have aligned themselves with a movement, assuming that they are working for a "better world". Invariably, by the time they discover they have been scammed, it is usually too late .
They are "idiots" because they operate with partial information but assume they have enough information to know how everyone else in the world should live their lives.
After their mission is completed [total subversion of the social order], they are no longer useful and are usually part of the first group to be physically eliminated by the same entities for whom they worked.
Source: https://mundodoboso.blogspot.com/2023/11/o-que-e-um-idiota-util.html
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