Count Your Blessings

[Tony Griffiths]

Unfortunately I think we are run by what the Chinese call “useful idiots “

...that's commonly, but not confirmed, as being attributed to Lenin - though his party often referred in similar terms to traitorous Labour Party high-ups in the 1920s. Its origins are more complex, though in every case its use appears to have been by communists denigrating "Liberals" who, keen to promote democracy and soft on communism, must never have read the Communist Party Manifesto and its stated intention to get rid of such a silly notion.