They're not fools. Not at all.
They have friends in MSM, and said friends will paint them as "heroes". For many, even today, MSM = Reality.
They're evil, but they do know what they're doing.
Perhaps "useful idiots" might have been a more apt term than "fool". :-)
Too right! During the 60s, the great majority of Americans knew nothing about the true nature and scope of leftist terrorism and intimidation. A fawning media either whitewashed the pro-NVA "peace movement" or ignored it entirely. Today, with the net and talk radio, things are very different. Everything the seditionists do can be exposed to the light of day. The media-industrial complex is still very strong, but their power is fading. Their 50 year reign of cultural terror isn't over yet, but they are on the defensive.