[detective]

"With Congressman Leo Ryan, three journalists, and a Jonestown defector murdered by Temple security on an airstrip outside Jonestown, Jim Jones’s inner circle, with gunmen and archers surrounding the flock, provided Flavor-Aid laced with valium and cyanide in a vat under the Jonestown pavilion.

Parents poisoned their children first, which sapped a will to live from the adults. What outsiders later clearly saw as an act of nihilism, the cultists regarded as an act imbued with profound meaning. Jim Jones told them that they gave their lives for the glory of Communism."

Jim Jones and the People's Temple were the main force which changed California from Reagan influenced conservative to leftist Democrat.

Nancy Pelosy, Jerry Brown, Willie Brown, Harvey Milk and many other California Democrats were supported by Jones and the People's Temple. The admired him and owed their careers to him. He supported them financially and had his many followers vote for them.

[socalgop]

They were before my time - can you explain in more detail how did a suicide cult change CA’s politics after their death? It seems counterintuitive.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Jim Jones and the People’s Temple were the main force which changed California from Reagan influenced conservative to leftist Democrat.”

How do you conclude that? That seems like a big stretch. The mass suicide was in the news a few days and was then quickly forgotten. I’ve lived in CA for 45 years and that event was a tiny blip, nothing more.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

[Califreak]

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Interesting.

[bitt]

did not know there were ties to the demdogs.. ping

[stylin19a]

And I’ve been wondering how Jackie Speier stayed a RAT...

[YogicCowboy]

Main political force, yes.

But they needed statewide voters: Enter Reagan and Amnesty.

With friends like that...