Most younger people are unaware of the origin of the meaning of the term, “Drink the Kool-Aid.”
According to Reference.com, the phrase is “a derogatory term that refers to people who blindly follow someone or something without question, such as devotees of a particular politician.” It is tantamount to being called a lemming or, one who unthinkingly joins a mass movement, especially a headlong rush to destruction.
A Short History Lesson
By 1978, a cult leader by the name of Jim Jones had established a commune in the tiny South American nation of Guyana. Jones was a former Methodist minister turned atheist, a civil-rights activist, communist and it’s also important to note, he was a socialist. In November of that same year, Jones had ordered the murder of visiting U.S. congressman, Leo Ryan, who was there to investigate reports of abuse and atrocities at the commune known as Jonestown. Following the congressman’s murder, Jones knew the end for him and Jonestown was at hand. So, he executed a plan in which he told followers to serve or force-feed cyanide-laced Flavor-Aid and Kool-Aid to their children before drinking the deadly potion themselves. Jones, having observed the convulsive suffering that brought death to his followers, chose death by bullet. The final result was 918 dead, over 300 of which were children.
A logical question might be, how could any person convince so many to kill their own children and then take their own lives?
People are looking for someone, anyone, who will step up and take the lead. They want someone who will get up on a soapbox and preach what they want to hear regardless of how ridiculous the sermon may sound. Adolf Hitler proved that when he convinced an entire nation it was good to annihilate an entire race of people.
Enter Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
If you’re looking for a recent example, you need look no further than the 2018 mid-term elections in which an unknown, barely out of her teens, extreme radical with extreme ideals ran, successfully, to defeat a veteran New York congressman. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), like Jim Jones, is a socialist, who actually won the election in the same way President Trump won the White House-by saying what appealed to voters. The difference is, Candidate Trump’s promises were attainable, as we have seen on numerous occasions, while AOC’s are not.
The ignorance of AOC was obvious during the campaign, but New York voters were willing to ignore her youthful inexperience and lack of knowledge because they liked what she said, even though her proposals for utopia were completely unreasonable and impossible. But, none of that mattered and she now has a seat in Congress.
Recently, the Democrats pushed her out in front of the cameras to hawk the Green New Deal. This has revealed not just her own naivety, but that of several democrats who have fallen in line behind her. They drank the Kool-Aid! The plan sounds pretty good until you start to think it through. For example, start with the green initiatives which include phasing out all use of fossil fuels. That means instead of internal combustion engines, we will have electric cars, trucks and trains and no more airplanes. How do they think electricity is generated if not by fossil fuel? Solar and wind cannot generate the amount of electricity that would be needed under the plan. Not only will that bring commercial and civil air travel to a halt but what about our military? This will also wipe out entire industries along with millions of jobs. And don’t even get me started on cow flatulence! When cows eat, they poot. So, is the green plan to stop feeding cows and place them on the endangered species list?
This is just- to use her own vernacular the tippy top of the iceberg. And all this is supposed to occur within the next 12 years; otherwise, according to her, the world will cease to exist.
Surely the Democrat Party is not so stupid they won’t try to reign in this rookie congresswoman with her unbridled, utopic, yet impractical, ambitions. This young woman is standing on the trap door to the looney bin and is threatening to take the United States in with her when she falls. Wake up America and think about what these people are trying to sell us. If you decide to go along with these hair-brained plans after you have made the effort to educate yourself, that’s one thing. But, if you jump on the train without learning the issues, then you’re as ignorant as she is. Educate yourself. Be informed. Use your own brain rather than that of someone else. Don’t drink the Kool-Aid simply because it is served by Democrats and you happen to be one.