if your biggest up front point is that they didn’t drink “Kool-Aid” but rather “Flavor-Aid” you’ve lost the argument.
And Jim Jones was a Marxist Democrat player protected by the leftist Democrat establishment in San Francisco and DC.
Apologists trying to make the case for socialist utopias while ignoring the excess and despotism do society a great harm.
And comparing him to Donald Trump and his follower? Pu-lease.
But what do you expect from Robert “Hollywood Red” Redford’s Sundance Channel?
I’m only surprised that it isn’t the pinkos at PBS airing this as they’ve profiled (favorably) the antics of the SLA and Weather Underground.
Don't let the fact that Jim Jones was cheered by all the best and brightest Leftists in San Francisco get in the way of the interviewers TDS.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/drinking-the-kool-aid-remember-when-jim-jones-was-a-hero-to-democrats/
The comments are pretty brutal about the anti-Trump nonsense.
“It’s always useful to remember Nancy Pelosi got her start in Jim Jones’s San Francisco.”
https://spectator.org/meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss/
Where’s the barf alert?
He’s been compared the years to Hitler, but unlike Hitler, Jones didn’t gain his followers by appealing to their worst natures. Jones told his followers, “You’re gonna have to give up things. What we’re trying to do is make sure everyone gets a fair share, not that you’re going to get more.”
The author is completely wrong here. Hitler was a "progressive" of his day. Jones demonized the United States government and western civilization. Hitler demonized the Jews and western civilization.
Hitler demanded sacrifice, hard work, and surrendering the self to the collective, just like Jones.
Diane is not the only one who dodged a bullet.
This article reinforces what I have long thought about the DemonRats -they are agents of Satan.
This playbook has been used many times before, most notably to transform Adolph Hitler into a rightwing madman when in fact he was anything but rightwing. The only ones who might consider Hitler rightwing were communists. To everyone else he was a creature of the left. He was a flop in art school, a rumored homosexual or at least bisexual, a socialist rabble-rouser from early adulthood, a despiser of Christianity and a complete totalitarian redistributionist nut once he had power. Sounds like a garden variety up and coming leftist, to me. But, to the public at large, he’s been successfully pinned on conservatives. Quite the handy trick, used over and over again.
Sounds like the author drank the Kool Aid.
Ron Howard Rips Mars,
Caravans get a Pass
And now
Jonestown Revisited,
.
.no wonder I’m Grumpy.
40 years ago was the last time we had “Peak Socialism” in the US.
That’s why the Left had to run away from the label “Liberal” for at least 2 decades.
Hopefully we are about to see the same phenomenon with “Progressive”.
He lost me right there.
I don't trust the rest of the article to be accurate.
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.
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.
“...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.
Why is this garbage even posted here? I come to Free Republic to GET AWAY from Leftist drivel.
That's an oxymoron of a sentence.
They were Godless and were therefore easily duped.
So IOW a liberal Marxist.