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Posted on 11/20/2018 4:14:03 AM PST by a fool in paradise
a lot of chaos, carnage, and ugly and it didn’t have to be.
hard drugs, serial killers, domestic terrorism (thousands of bombings from the far Left)...
He lost me right there.
I don't trust the rest of the article to be accurate.
I don’t trust Yahoo.com to be accurate.
That li(n)e was written by a Senior Editor at Yahoo.
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*I’m only surprised that it isn’t the pinkos at PBS airing this*
NPR to the rescue. https://www.npr.org/2018/11/16/668249279/40-years-later-jonestown-offers-a-lesson-in-demagoguery
Orange Man Bad
In the NPR interview: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/16/668249279/40-years-later-jonestown-offers-a-lesson-in-demagoguery
GUINN: The things I’ve learned writing this book scare the hell out of me in terms of today’s America. And as social media continues to expand, more and more people are getting unfiltered information that they can believe or not to believe. And we’re entering a time in in our history, I think, where a lot of people think the truth doesn’t matter because the truth is always going to be just what’s convenient for them to believe.
The facts don’t matter anymore. Leadership is less based on some sort of comprehensive plan to bring everyone together but instead people want to gain control and gain power in office by splitting up the country and having just enough margin on their side to get sufficient votes to win. And once people are in power, instead of using it positively, it’s used instead to try to emphasize their ties with their followers and to show disdain, and even in some cases outright try to destroy, anybody who disagrees with them.
Jim Jones epitomizes the worst that can happen when we let one person dictate what we hear, what we believe that, anybody opposed to him must be opposed to us. This is what we’re becoming. We can only change that if we learn from the past and try to apply it to today. So yes, the things I’ve learned writing this book scare the hell out of me.
true they have covered it, but not this new Sundance 4-part documentary of revisionist history as they did for the Black Panthers, SLA, Weather Underground, and others
but her report is on the same author (who’s book came out in 2017). I’ll check in on it later, off to the office
He was a major figure in San Fran politics, he constantly mouthed lefty shibboleths. The lefties there freaking LOVED him.
He was great pals with Diane Feinstein, who has never been called out on it.
‘Progressives’ are actually Regressives. Regressives are trying to take us back from being civilized humans to being animalistic creatures.
Houston Comical ran a SF piece recently as well kissing up to Jones’ opposition to Capitalism and efforts to help the underclass. Why didn’t they take this stance when Charles Manson died? He didn’t personally kill anyone and he gave a support system to youth who’d been cast out by family and society.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sfhistory/article/jim-jones-peoples-temple-sf-oakland-13385679.php
I haven’t read past the first paragraph, but I will comment. If anyone is trying to compare jones to my President Trump... it’s a disgrace! Ignorance is not bliss!
I knew jim jones when he was in school and until he was gone from my area. He was always strange and seemed troubled. He had traits that one could say lead up to what he did, but no one suspected such a tragedy.
My son, who was a writer some time back, and coming from that area, and my knowing him.. My son wrote a long news article on jim jones, and interviewed the people who knew him better than I did.
It was a sick tragedy and don’t ever compare anyone to jim jones when they don’t know squat about him or why he did what he did.
It’s a shame so many have taken to doing anything they can to destroy or try to destroy President Trump... who cares more than most and has kept his word to the people... trying to fix the mess he was given.
>>And once people are in power, instead of using it positively, it’s used instead to try to emphasize their ties with their followers and to show disdain, and even in some cases outright try to destroy, anybody who disagrees with them.
Obama said go vote to get revenge
“...members of Peoples Temple included some of the most intelligent, talented and socially committed people you’d find anywhere. These weren’t dummies just falling into place; they really believed in what Jones was preaching.”
Yes, people who really BELIEVE communist blather from an insane tyrant, leading inexorably to their own poverty and death are GENIUSES OF THE AGE. Give them a collective Darwin Award.
there are Harvard professors who’ve given tens of thousands to Nigerian email scammers.
Why is this garbage even posted here? I come to Free Republic to GET AWAY from Leftist drivel.
to challenge the media’s (Yahoo/Sundance) position that Socialism is all good and utopia and that Jim Jones was a good man but Trump, he could be even WORSE!
That's an oxymoron of a sentence.
They were Godless and were therefore easily duped.
“...members of Peoples Temple included some of the most intelligent, talented and socially committed people you’d find anywhere. These weren’t dummies just falling into place; they really believed in what Jones was preaching.”
They were not the most intelligent people... they were easily led. Jim jones once brought 3 grayhound buses of his people to our small town where he grew up. Every person on that bus was black. They also are committed democrats... guillable and won’t change. He found them easy to recruit when he started out in Indianapolis.. He did start out trying to help those who needed help, but he quickly found he could tell them what to do and gained power.. which seems to be an addictive trait we see in politics.
jim jones came from nothing and power was a solution that satisfied him and made him somebody.
some of the “good” ascribed to Jim Jones was curing them of drug and alcohol addiction even though he himself abused drugs and silently doped his flock to make them compliant/submissive.
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