June 10, 2020--Kool Aid
Desperately in need of the oxygen they provide, an embattled Trump announced he will soon resume mega-rallies. Perhaps as soon as later this week in Texas.
Polls show Trump and Biden in a statistical dead-heat in the Lone Star state. Four years ago Tump carried Texas by nine points. But Texas is now trending blue, and that has Tump's attention. One thing he knows is how to count. For example, if Biden wins Texas, he will be elected. It's as simple as that.
At these rallies there will be no social distancing, masks will not be in evidence, just thousands of defiant Trumpers in MAGA hats packed together in stifling, virus-ladened arenas.
No matter what health risks his most fervent followers will be exposed to, all that matters to Trump is that they will be there for him, to lift his spirits during this his darkest, most politically perilous hour.
This lack of concern for their very lives reminded me of the victims of the Jonestown cult.
Remember it? Back in 1978 charismatic cult leader, Jim Jones got hundreds of followers from his California-based Peoples Temple to join him at his compound in Guyana to wait for the end of the world.
Settled there and feeling the encroachment of governmental authorities who were concerned about what they were learning Jones was up to, he cranked up the intensity of orgiastic life in the compound.
Then one afternoon Jones assembled his people for a Kool Aid party. What they didn't initially know was that the Kool Aid was laced with cyanide.
But in spite of this they kept downing the sugary concoction.
As a result 909 died, making it one of the largest non-governmental mass murders in history.
Resisting the temptation to link Jones and Trump too cavalierly, it does not feel too much of a stretch to suggest that Trump's lack of concern for his people (and the rest of us) is not so dissimilar to Jones's disregard for members of his "temple."
Thus, by the end of this election season, Tump is likely to be responsible for the sickness and deaths of scores of his most passionate supporters.
He claims he is the leader of a movement. To me it seems more like a death cult.
Polls show Trump and Biden in a statistical dead-heat in the Lone Star state. Four years ago Tump carried Texas by nine points. But Texas is now trending blue, and that has Tump's attention. One thing he knows is how to count. For example, if Biden wins Texas, he will be elected. It's as simple as that.
At these rallies there will be no social distancing, masks will not be in evidence, just thousands of defiant Trumpers in MAGA hats packed together in stifling, virus-ladened arenas.
No matter what health risks his most fervent followers will be exposed to, all that matters to Trump is that they will be there for him, to lift his spirits during this his darkest, most politically perilous hour.
This lack of concern for their very lives reminded me of the victims of the Jonestown cult.
Remember it? Back in 1978 charismatic cult leader, Jim Jones got hundreds of followers from his California-based Peoples Temple to join him at his compound in Guyana to wait for the end of the world.
Settled there and feeling the encroachment of governmental authorities who were concerned about what they were learning Jones was up to, he cranked up the intensity of orgiastic life in the compound.
Then one afternoon Jones assembled his people for a Kool Aid party. What they didn't initially know was that the Kool Aid was laced with cyanide.
But in spite of this they kept downing the sugary concoction.
As a result 909 died, making it one of the largest non-governmental mass murders in history.
Resisting the temptation to link Jones and Trump too cavalierly, it does not feel too much of a stretch to suggest that Trump's lack of concern for his people (and the rest of us) is not so dissimilar to Jones's disregard for members of his "temple."
Thus, by the end of this election season, Tump is likely to be responsible for the sickness and deaths of scores of his most passionate supporters.
He claims he is the leader of a movement. To me it seems more like a death cult.
Labels: 2020 Election, Cults, Guyana, Jim Jones, Jonestown, Kool Aid, Peoples Temple
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