Useful Idiots
It's a bonus Useful Idiots entry because I have two examples for you today. This is going to be its own category from now on. The idea is that falsehoods, hysteria, injustice, pseudoscience and more are propagated in two ways: one is through state edict and force; the other is via the Useful Idiot Network of everyday people who continually seek out external authorities in every matter of their lives, believe virtually everything they are told by these external authorities, and become activists for "the cause" to varying degree. Nowadays, state force often comes on the scene after the Useful Idiot Network has paved the way by whipping up its series of "problems" where none previously existed or needed to exist. When the state initiates force--from demanding a building permit to locking up peaceful people to stealing our incomes in taxation--it is always evil, all of the time, in any and all degree that it exists. When mysticism, lies, and hysteria are propagated--not by force, but by Useful Idiots--it's evidence that very nearly all of the world's population is utterly and completely stupid; i.e., they can and do believe virtually anything and everything and will perpetuate or acquiesce to virtually...