Letter: GOP drinks the Kool-Aid
By Dan DeWeese, Vancouver
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In the 1970s James Jones, a charismatic minister from San Francisco, led a group of followers to a newly established commune in Guyana, South America. By 1977 nearly 1,000 Americans had moved to his supposed “Promised Land” of liberty and justice. Jones turned out to be a megalomaniac with delusional fantasies of his own power, relevance, omnipotence and inflated self-esteem. With the dream collapsing a mass murder/suicide event occurred on Nov. 18, 1978, wiping out almost the entire community of men, women and children. Some were shot. Most drank a lethal Kool-Aid concoction.