yeah yeah yeah

'Useful idiots' was a term Lenin used to describe the masses. They weren't good for anything, in his mind, except to be herded around to do the bidding of the government. For what the explanation is worth.

And paranoia isn't necessarily severe. There are degrees. And if you can watch people jump out of hundred floor windows and then read about NORAD interceptors being held on the ground, you don't even have the amount of paranoia requisite for survival.