Common causes, cures for a persistent cough. Cough for a minute or two, and you may think something has gone down the wrong pipe.. Cough for a day or two, and you may think you've picked up a cold or the flu. After a week, bronchitis or allergies may come to mind.
Some ninety years ago Vladimir Lenin coined the phrase âuseful idiotâ and it originally described liberal Communist sympathizers in Western nations who, as the Soviet leader explained, would âsell us (Soviet Russia) the rope with which we will hang them (the West).â.
The Useful Idiot is not the same as a person who honestly has a different point of view. A society without honest and open differences of views is a dead society. Critical, different and fresh ideas are the life blood of a living societyâthe very anathema of autocracies where the official position is sacrosanct.