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"The Left – which was once (ostensibly) the political movement of the poor – made itself rich and, having done so, now seeks to make everyone else poor, using the wealth it now possesses.

Similarly, the Left favored freedom of speech so long as it was useful to the Left – and so long as it was the Left that was complaining about the abuses of political and economic institutions it did not control. Once it acquired control over those institutions, they were useful as mechanism for controlling speech that questioned the Left.

Likewise, wars – particularly those in other countries – which the Left once opposed with gusto, because it served the interests of the Left. The chief one being to undermine public confidence in the government, which – at the time – the Left did not control. Here it is important to make a distinction between the Left and Democrats. A Leftist – pieties about “democracy” aside – is the farthest thing from a Democrat; i.e., a person who thinks government exists to further the lot of the average person. A Leftist uses such persons, of course – who are duped by Leftists into believing these elitists are interested in them, beyond their usefulness as expedients.

Hence Lenin’s term, useful idiots."