Agreed completely.
These personal attacks, in either direction, from either side, have got to stop.
You've been a strong voice of civility on this site recently. Thanks for that.
Actually, the sugar-drink flavoring used in mass murder (not suicide) by Jim Jones in Guyana was a Kool-Aid clone called "Flavor-ade"
Kool-Aid, however, was popular with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters during the early to mid 60s.
I've known many who drank that Kool-aid and few (none that I know personally) of them seem to have been harmed by that experience. In fact, one would have to say that all evidence to me from my (much) younger perspective has been that it was an extremely positive experience for them.
They seem to have a wisdom and a healthy acceptance, and in many cases, even an embrace of life's chaos that carries them through both good times and bad. Most of them escaped the worst aspects of the late 60s with a healthy cynicism and rejection of ALL dogma that seems to give people extreme resilience to misfortune. One would have to conclude that a healthy mistrust of politicians, politics and indeed, all hierarchy is often a very good thing.
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Jackie Speier, the newest Democratic Congresswoman, was Congressman Ryan's aide.
She was on that plane that got out.. was shot while trying to board it, and narrowly escaped with her life.
During those CREEPY days, I used to live in the Western Addition.. some of the people who died in Guyana were from my neighbors families. The old People's Temple stood vacant for MANY years.. then it was torn down, leaving a vacant lot..until fairly recently, when a post office, I think, was built on the site.
It always used to give me the creeps goin past there, knowing about Jim Jones and remembering how many people had died in his mind control experiment.
A vacant Peoples' Temple would make for some eerie documentary photography.
Name calling is childish - just brush it off Bro
