“Lenin called them “useful idiots”, those people living in liberal democracies who, by providing moral and material support for a totalitarian ideology, were in reality weaving the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one that still arises today. » ~ Professor Bruce Thornton, Cal State Fresno I rarely watch television, other than sporting events; I have no use for a dismal media outlet that has so deliberately damaged our beloved America and continues to do so with amoral programming and station-to-station misinformation called network news. The other night, while surfing the channels during a "Monday Night Football" break, I came across "Boston Legal" just in time to hear one of the characters call Americans idiots who don't have voted for Barrack Hussein Obama. Idiots! The fifty percent of America who see this man for what he is are idiots in the minds of the smug fools of Hollywood, the most dysfunctional community on the planet. When you think about it, it makes perfect sense that a group of modern-day useful idiots, self-effacing snobs who spend their lives selling style over substance, would be seduced and vote for Obama, the epitome of excellence of style rather than substance. Oh yes, we are the idiots, not the histrionic Oprah Winfrey, the orgasmic Chris Mathews, the incomprehensibly talkative Sean Penn or the bile-spewing Jeremiah Wright and Keith Olberman. No, we are idiots because we love America and the ideals that made it strong. We are idiots but they are the intelligentsia because they had the vision to let themselves be led by media devoid of any objectivity. They alone saw the wisdom in appeasing a European faction that hates Am...... middle of paper ... this is the same global world of financial equality imagined by Karl Marx. Idiot that I am, I see this as incompatible with our freedom to pursue life, liberty and happiness, and I see the same philosophy that destroyed the Soviet Union and plunged Europe into a sea of ​​rights and mired in a socialist quagmire. I'm clearly too stupid to understand how this will be good for America and its citizens, maybe Charlie Gibson can explain it to me. © Peter J. Hynes 2008 Works Cited “Lenin called them “useful idiots,” those people living in liberal democracies who, by providing moral and material support for a totalitarian ideology, are in fact weaving the rope that will hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one that still arises today. » ~ Professor Bruce Thornton, Cal State Fresno