Trouble is, there do seem to be a lot of these idiots!!

The banality of evil is a term coined by Hannah Arendt to describe the capacity of ordinary people to commit horrific acts not out of deep-seated malice, but by conforming to systemic, bureaucratic processes, allowing themselves to become mere cogs in a machine that normalizes and perpetuates evil.

Agree. There are a lot of weak minded folk, who's main motivation seems to be to conform or 'fit in'. Then we are plagued by a small number of manipulative schemers, who prey on these weak minded.