[TheConservativeBanker]

I have always referred to the foot soldiers of these smart, evil organizers as the “good hearted gullible”. Every mass movement needs them to give the impression of broad support.

[VTenigma]

I think the proper term is “useful idiots”, and we all know what happened to them in the past.

[rlmorel]

In the years I have spent on FR, I have stratified the Left as follows:

1. Good-Hearted Liberals
   • They don’t think about issues much further than the emotional part. Not all of them are bad or crazy, many are just ill-informed and/or slaves to their emotions. They trust the news.
   • You can often talk to these people, they may live next door to you or are in the next office over. They may believe in diversity, homosexuality, and things like Black Lives Matter, and they may go to churches that support those same things.
   • They buy into these things even though they may otherwise be intelligent, because they largely accept what has been spoon fed to them. Some may change their minds and stop being a Leftist due to current outrageous leftist handling of an issue, or they may have life circumstances that make them change. Sometimes it is simply going out into the working world and having to buy your own food and toilet paper.
   • I have some casual acquaintances and people I work with, I have been able to talk politics with them on occasion, and they know where I am coming from even if they don’t agree. These people are often incidental useful idiots.

2. Leftist Foot Soldiers
   • These are the true believers, the foot soldiers of Marxism, the Marxist Cannon Fodder. These are people you cannot talk to. I just avoid them. I don’t bother to engage them or debate issues with them. These are almost always the people on the other side of the protest barrier. I have had some exposure since 2004 with these people from demonstrating with the DC Chapter outside Walter Reed for all those years, and I despise and detest them. I feel the same way about them that John Belushi felt about Illinois Nazis" in the movie "The Blues Brothers".
   • These are the Code Pink, Move On, LGBTQRXZ, SJW, Black Lives Matter people. These people actually believe that Marxist crap. They are the people with fevered faces, spittle on their lips, chanting the stupid slogans “Hey, hey, ho, ho, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah” as if they are too stupid to make up any new chants from the Sixties. Their cars have 12 bumper stickers on the back, and sometimes the sides and the front, with “Question Authority”, “Impeach Trump” “Diversity” (with all the symbols) No Blood For Oil, and so on. These people suck. I have never met a single one in my entire life I thought had more value than a warm cup of spit, and even then.
   • I avoid them. These are the REAL useful idiots.

3. The Evil Ones
   • These are the people we refer to as both Foreign and Domestic Enemies of the United States.
   • These people are enemies. They know what they are all about, and they know you know it (if you are one of us) They aren’t about equality or any other fashionable SJW issue, but play along as if they care about those things...which they don’t
   • They are all about being grifters of other people’s money, having their hands directly on the levers of power, and exercising it with prejudice.
   • These people are the ones who DO make it to the privileged power set when they take power, and they have no qualms about putting those people in any other category but them up against a wall...particularly the 2nd group listed above (The Leftist Foot Soldiers) who could become dangerous to them.