A Kool Aid Drinker By Any Other Name…(Or Should I say Another Name?)

For a very long time now anyone who was all in for some idea, particularly the more wacky–OK, insane– ideas, was said to have drank the Kool Aid®.   This phrase derives from Jim Jones and his People’s Temple, who were denied exile in Russia from their paranoid-delusional self-imposed exile on an “agricultural mission” in the socialist armpit of Guyana.

Everyone in the U.S was, after all, out to spin their little cult as a bunch of crazed-whacko’s.

So to prove them wrong, and rather than risk being captured or subjected to fascism–(no proper far left-communist would ever allow themselves to be subjected to  the not-quite-so-far-left-left-as fascism)–they proved the “they are a bunch of wackos crowd” wrong by committing mass suicide with a mixture of cyanide and Kool-Aid.  Some say it was grape Flavor-aid.  The 900 plus formerly-living residents of Jonestown who drank the ‘Kool-Aid” were too dead to debate the point, but ‘Drinking the Kool-Aid‘ quickly became a part of the collective consciousness and a sign that you were all-in on whatever it was, (to quote the Orbit Girl) “no matter what.” (Fabulous!)

Which brings me to my point.

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