So I recently found out that when O'Rielly 'strongly disagrees' with someone's views he tells them to drink the cool-aid or says they're drinking it. I wonder how many of his viewers even know where that comes from because I ran into one who didn't realize where it came from:
Drink The Kool-Aid
A reference to the 1978 cult mass-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. Jim Jones, the leader of the group, convinced his followers to move to Jonestown. Late in the year he then ordered his flock to commit suicide by drinking grape-flavored Kool-Aid laced with potassium cyanide. In what is now commonly called "the Jonestown Massacre", 913 of the 1100 Jonestown residents drank the Kool-Aid and died.
One lasting legacy of the Jonestown tragedy is the saying, “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid.” This has come to mean, "Don’t trust any group you find to be a little on the kooky side." or "Whatever they tell you, don't believe it too strongly".
The phrase can also be used in the opposite sense to indicate that one has embraced a particular philosophy or perspective.
~Urban Dictionary
All this does is prove my conclusion that I came to at around midnight:
Anyone who is ok with some socialism or is a liberal is apparently in a cult and drinking the cool-aid because we can think for ourselves and care about the welfare of others.
Oh and whomever doesn't like Faux News or disagrees with O'Rielly you're also drinking the kool-aid. Nice isn't it? Oh and this would also be why Faux News viewers are either ignorant or stupid.
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Every year on the anniversary of the Jonestown Tragedy CNN, and MSNBC run specials on this. Some clips from these are available on youtube.
Though, for blind following sounds more like the Faux crowd.
I may have to look into those clips. And yes it does. It's why it's so scary.
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