Dan/13: Half my friends are Leninists without even knowing it.

I have noticed the same thing over the years. I too was one of these useful idiots, until I was in my last year of college. I started dating a Russian immigrant, a refugee who had experienced Soviet society first hand. She effectively disabused me of my wrongful educational in the system to that point. Recently, I have seen the video interviews of Yuri Besmenov and his description of active measures an intentional, multi-generational effort by the KGB to undermine the American educational establishment. See Bill Ayers for a radical example. But your point is spot on – most Americans are unaware of their brainwashing and Leninist leanings. If pointed out, they will deny it and claim they are just being “fair” and “sensible”. The concept of America will never die, but the United States is quite ill at the moment.