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What will become of the useful idiots?
American Thinker ^ | 26 Jun, 2021 | Liam Brooks

Posted on 06/26/2021 4:10:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Rank-and-file boosters of communism don't tend to do so well once the Reds have taken over.

As the Marxist revolution oozes forward, I occasionally wonder what will happen to the useful idiots when the commies seize absolute power in this once great Republic. I believe that most AT readers are familiar with the term, but for those who need a brief refresher, a useful idiot, as defined by Wikipedia, "is a derogatory term for a person perceived as propagandizing for a cause without fully comprehending the cause's goals, and who is cynically used by the cause's leaders." In my opinion, this definition can be applied to a majority of the young, brainwashed radicals who have no idea about the true history of Marxism...or the real history of their native land that they're working so hard to destroy.

We're all aware of the current props being used by the radical left to further their cause — LGBT issues, racism, feminism, slavery, etc. — but how will some of those props fare under a Marxist regime? It's difficult to research racial politics in China and Russia, because no nation — especially communist countries — has nearly as much racial and ethnic diversity as the United States. But the fate of the LGBT community and feminism is another matter. While several websites make vague and inconclusive references to gay and transgender rights in China and Russia, it appears that feminism and homosexuality — and certainly transgenderism — are simply not tolerated.

A look at history supports that conclusion. In an illuminating article on Frontpagemag, the always incisive Daniel Greenfield (highly recommended...a must read!) s on this subject.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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1 posted on 06/26/2021 4:10:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The whiny complainers will not be tolerated under a totalitarian regime. They will be given a dirt nap time out.


2 posted on 06/26/2021 4:11:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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3 posted on 06/26/2021 4:17:53 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MtnClimber
They will be given a dirt nap time out.

Yes, they will be the first ones lined up against the wall, and shot.

4 posted on 06/26/2021 4:22:30 AM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force combat pilot )
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To: MtnClimber

It’s difficult to research racial politics in China and Russia, because .....

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they’re not allowed to exist - if they find/catch you, you’re imprisoned/killed. Due to the state of their prisons, killed is likely the preferred option.


5 posted on 06/26/2021 4:22:37 AM PDT by Qiviut (Faith is the antidote to fear. Mindset: be a victor, not a victim.)
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To: MtnClimber

AOC seems like the perfect example of someone who will end up holding the whip (unlikely: not smart enough) or someone who will be terminated with prejudice for failing to perfectly spout the current Party Doctrine.


6 posted on 06/26/2021 4:27:33 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: MtnClimber

They’ll be rewarded with some apparatchik job and they’ll be fine…simply because they’ll stop complaining. Look at how the “feminists,” who theoretically worked for women’s equality in sports and other areas, are now falling all over themselves to scream that it’s the realization of their dream that biological men be allowed to compete against biological women in sports. Or even that biological men be allowed to compete against real women in beauty pageants (where the drag queen look has clearly won).

Woe to the woman who says otherwise. They cancelled the author of Harry Potter and several sports figures for the mildest dissent from their new orthodoxy.

As for gays, even their organizations are now into declaring “gender fluidity” so that actually it doesn’t matter. In other words, being gay as a category will simply fade away.

People like them move from orthodoxy to orthodoxy, always being guaranteed a space at the table as long as they adapt, no matter how much it may conflict with their earlier screaming orthodoxy. Rarely does the power in control need to show its iron first to maintain that control with people like that. In fact, they often become enforcers themselves.


7 posted on 06/26/2021 4:31:44 AM PDT by livius
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To: ClearCase_guy

The communists have always had purges over purity tests.


8 posted on 06/26/2021 4:36:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I hope the Cuomos and Romneys are first.


9 posted on 06/26/2021 4:47:51 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Cornpop was a good dude.)
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Well, Yuri Bezamov (sp?) says they will take dirt naps or go to the Gulag.

I really don’t care what they reap. The fools have done enough damage already.


10 posted on 06/26/2021 4:54:46 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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Useful idiots

Thomas Sowell
May 20, 2003

Thomas Sowell

"The term 'useful idiots' has been attributed to Lenin, as a description of those mindless people in the Western democracies who would always find ways to excuse whatever the Soviet Union did. Columnist Mona Charen's new book Useful Idiots shows that such people are still with us.

Long after the Soviet Union's horrors had become too widely known around the world for their sympathizers in the West to be able to get away with whitewashing the USSR, new Communist dictatorships arose to become the new objects of the affections of the Western intelligentsia and of like-minded people in the media and in politics. ..."

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2003/05/20/useful_idiots

11 posted on 06/26/2021 5:11:05 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! CHINA-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The problem with progressivism is you’re never pure enough. Even Robespierre, Marat and Trotsky were found to not be pure enough. When the time comes people like AOC will be next in line after the media and academia.


12 posted on 06/26/2021 5:18:50 AM PDT by redangus
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To: MtnClimber

, I occasionally wonder what will happen to the useful idiots when the commies seize absolute power “””

They will learn how useful they were and what idiots they are.


13 posted on 06/26/2021 5:20:01 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: MtnClimber

A true Marxist regime is always hardest on its own supporters.

Most conservatives will see what is coming and get out of town. Like the White Russians we will be forced into exile around the world, or perhaps we could have our own Taiwan (Alaska?) that can hold out as a free land of refuge.


14 posted on 06/26/2021 5:24:59 AM PDT by Renfrew
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


15 posted on 06/26/2021 5:28:24 AM PDT by sauropod (The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
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To: Mark17
"Yes, they will be the first ones lined up against the wall, and shot."

Followed closely by many, many members of the media. What's left of that "profession" will be conscripted into the new state-run news outlet(singular), where they will dutifully read scripted "news" stories handed to them by the party elite. One word out of place, and they too will end up dying from lead poisoning.
16 posted on 06/26/2021 5:44:35 AM PDT by LIConFem (Bring a Commie to room temperature for Mommy)
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To: Travis McGee

It’s not just Dems.

The only reason two parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.

Pols are either loyal to our former republic or to Deep State.

The letter after the name means jack anymore.


17 posted on 06/26/2021 5:50:39 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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Grave warning from retired Army officer: ‘We have been sold out: Prepare for war …it’s coming’

In a previous article, I laid out the case for China rising up as an existential threat to America and everything it stands for.

I posited that, under the current regime in Washington, we are already under a loose form of occupation by the Chinese Communist Party.

One thing I did not get into is China’s relationship with another key world power, Russia.

The Russians and Chinese have a long history of conflict and there is still much enmity between the two. But make no mistake, they will align themselves for the purpose of taking down their common enemy, the United States.
[rest at link]

https://leohohmann.com/2021/06/25/grave-warning-from-retired-army-officer-we-have-been-sold-out-prepare-for-war-its-coming/


18 posted on 06/26/2021 5:56:11 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: mewzilla

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25 June 2021
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19 posted on 06/26/2021 5:57:21 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MtnClimber

They will be killed off when they are used up.


20 posted on 06/26/2021 6:00:56 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…..)
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