Who and what are the "useful idiots"?

Lenin called them "useful idiots," : Those people living in liberal
democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian
ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people
who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a
fascinating question, one still with us today.

"See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each
 other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." -
George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003

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