“No, Communists become successful because they are given aid and comfort by spineless, lily-livered useful idiots who believe that the governments the communists seek to overthrow are terrible.”
So, you reckon The Tsar of Russia, Batista, Chiang Kai-Shek etc were excellent leaders, and that the regimes they ran were bastions of freedom, the rule of law and fair play? Give me a break. They were bad regimes. That point is not debateable by any reasonable mind. What replaced them may well have been worse, but hatred for a bad regime does have the effect a afflicting it’s sufferers with blindness about the nature of the revolutionary movement which seeks to replace it....
You don't have to love what you call "bad regimes," you just shouldn't support even worse regimes taking over, like India did in Nepal. The UK and USA also bear responsibility and blame for this. The king had no legitimacy but the maoists do have legitimacy? Where is the international campaign to pressure the maoists who came to power pointing guns at the heads of voters as they are also doing all over India? There a double standard. Now that India's dirty work is done and the maoists are in charge, there will be no pressure on this new communist regime. Instead the Indian government fawns all over them even as they demand renegotiation of links between Nepal and India, and they establish brand new links with the Communist Party of China! Fools!
I tell you this, any people that elects communists does not deserve democracy, and will not have democracy.