Excellent article and a perfect analogy. I was living in San Francisco when all of this happened and Jones’ automatons used to stuff his bizarre newsletter into my mailbox all the time. It always featured Jones at his “temple” surrounded by grinning Dem politicians.
After Jonestown, while there was considerable shock and horror, there was absolutely no analysis of how this had happened in plain sight, the ideas on which it was based and the complicitness of the Dem establishment. Jones was portrayed as a social crusader who just couldn’t take the pressure of fighting for the good anymore and went off the rails. And it was too bad about all those poor black people, but he really had had their best interests at heart.
Things certainly haven’t changed much.
And when Obama takes the US completely off the rails, the evil white Republicans will be blamed for the ensuing chaos. You are right, nothing has changed except that Obama is doing it on purpose and has publicly stated that he intends to bring the US to the same level as the rest of the world and our prominence, resource use, military and so on, are unjust.
It would explain the purple lips.
Look how the UN, Arab countries and communists - the pushers and haters of “Big (US) and Little (Israel) Satans” - have groomed Palestinians - all “Arab Streets” that “manufacture” crazies and terrorists - “Jamestowns” (on steroids).