Smart people are always a target, if not aligned to the current regime, it's not a CCP peculiarity nor new. Dumb people are easy to manipulate both directly and

Smart people are always a target, if not aligned to the current regime, it's not a CCP peculiarity nor new. Dumb people are easy to manipulate both directly and indirectly while smart ones can answer back effectively, can know how to push others backing them up etc. Did you remember goebbels stanzas about "if someone speak of culture I took my gun"? Well, goebbels was actually very close to Eduard Bernays in reasoning terms, an line-of-thoughts Bernays ancestor was also Gustave Le Bon, his best-seller was "Psychologies of crowds" witch happen to be the favorite book of mussolini, hitler, lenin and probably franco. I'm pretty sure in the past similar line-of-thoughts have existed as well, even ancient Greek's have had the concept of "useful idiot", someone knowledgeable enough to be useful, but dumb enough to be just a human-robot. And that's not a far-right peculiarity a (Delano) Roosevelt far less know nowadays cousin Clinton Roosevelt have envisaged the ideal socialist society in the 1841's "The Science of Government Founded on Natural Law" stating that a socialist society is not at all a Democracy, appear to be, but in reality is a society driven by a small élite of unknown to the masses thinkers who really decide anything while others simply obey convinced by propaganda/ideology. Oh, yes, I've write before far right because actually to my eyes Chines Communist Party is leftists as mussolini's National Fascist Party, they born out of the same model, witch happen to be the UK merchants model. Yes, really. Of course both regimes was/are adapted and blended, but the original line of though was that.