Thanks to our one-party, one ideology press, few people know that we won the Vietnam war - then abandoned Vietnam.
Many liberals don't even know that communism was bad. It's been that way for a long time. At the Yalta conference in 1944, FDR was more concerned about English imperialism than about communism. He felt closer to Stalin than to Churchill. Perhaps if the the New York Times had reported the Ukrainian holocaust of 1931-2, instead of denying it, FDR would have seen more clearly.
Does the left fool people, or are they fooled? The answer is that both apply. They mislead because they themselves are misled. It's like pealing an onion, with one layer following another. Behind every lie, there is another lie.
During the depths of the Clinton years, Rush had one of his best and most underrated insights: That there are large numbers of people in this country who want to be lied to. He was, and is, right about this. And those people are the leftwing crackpot's lawful prey. Now, they make up the bulk of the dazed and bewitched Obamamaniacs.