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I seriously encourage you to stop using the word KOOLAID, or the phrase "drinking the koolaid" or "True Believer" or even palinista -- unless you change your FR homepage to a Dictionary List with precise definitions for the words you are using.

It seems odd to me that you could use the phrase, "Jonestown moment" or "final glass of koolaid" or any number of phrases that older Americans all realize refer to either Jim Jones or Jamestowns or innumerable other suicidally dangerous cults.

YOU are not communicating with your audience.

I was so amazed that there are some freepers who believe that the photograph of Jonestown seriously meant that you called JR a murderer, that I remain speechless --- that photograph has NOTHING to do with either Jim Robinson or with Sarah Palin --- but obviously, you had NO idea how it would be taken.

Anyway, good by and good luck to you.

Regards,
HP

LOL ... did you know that in 2002 Arianna Huffington referred to the followers of GWB as drinking the koolaid, that his supporters were a delusional cult? Evidentally Bill O'Reilly uses the term very often -- I wonder if he or his audience know what it means?

Drinking the Kool-Aid - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The phrase Drinking the Kool-Aid means to become a firm believer in something, to accept an argument or philosophy wholeheartedly or blindly. The term originated with the Jonestown Massacre.

The term has its origins in the events of the Jonestown cult suicide. Jim Jones, the leader of the Peoples Temple, had persuaded followers to move to Jonestown, Guyana and found a commune. In November of 1978, faced with exposure, he had congressman Leo Ryan killed and ordered the residents to commit suicide by drinking a flavored beverage laced with potassium cyanide. Those unable to comply, such as infants, and those unwilling to comply received involuntary injections. Roughly 918 people died......

In an earlier post I misidentified Ken Kesey as the author of a book, but actually the book was written ABOUT Ken Kesey and the author was Tom Wolfe and the name of his classic is, THE ELECTRIC KOOL AID ACID TEST; and so the alternate meaning of the phrase "drinking the koolaid" is to injest LSD, an illegal hallucinogenic drug.

Perhaps you can find a better metaphor for what you are trying to communicate, for although both "koolaid" and cults in general are considered 'funny & foolish' nowadays, the fact remains that they are very very very dangerous, and that few people have read much about them. And it seems that very few people have ever read about THE TRUE BELIEVER.

I was so amazed that there are some freepers who believe that the photograph of Jonestown seriously meant that you called JR a murderer, that I remain speechless --- that photograph has NOTHING to do with either Jim Robinson or with Sarah Palin --- but obviously, you had NO idea how it would be taken.

You are very vocal on an issue of which you have no understanding. Let me know if I need to reword my other post to you in clearer, simpler language so perhaps you can grasp the meaning.