Give a bunch of conservatives some lines to say, and it's like winding them up and setting them down on a nice tile floor and letting them spin out their insignificant rage while they repeat that shit over and over in lieu of actually thinking about anything. I speculate that it's easy for them in this way because of the obvious similarity to the pomp and ritual of organized religion, a phenomenon with which you must be at least passably familiar in order to get your Right WingNut membership card in the mail. Last one I remember was "Flip-Flopping," and I think there were a couple of even dumber ones this past Fall, but I can't recall them. This newest one is "drinking the Kool-Aid," describing anyone who supports Barack Obama, while invoking the method of death used at Jonestown in 1977.
The assertion, of course, is that we're all caught up in some kind of cult of personality-esque religious fervor, and that we're sucked into supporting him because clearly, we're no longer capable of thinking for ourselves. So it's doubly insulting inasmuch as it asserts that Obama's an empty vessel - a pretty smile with soaring rhetoric which hides the void beyond it - and that we, as his supporters (and I think this extends to anyone who's slightly to the left of FOX NEWS or the former President) are easily led sheep, incapable of independent rationality. Classic strategy, turning your worst sins into those of your opponents. I don't think this one is working though, except to fill time in the last fifteen seconds of interviews and as Facebook status postings.
First off, it's startlingly ignorant, and shows that the person saying it has nothing to say. Like slapping someone at the beginning, rather than the end, of an argument. 914 people died at Jonestown, and there's nothing simple about why. Educate yourself, read a little about Jim Jones and his insanity. Recognize the mistake in linking support of a political candidate to a blind religious faith. Could be a little hypocrisy there. Realize that making this particular connection is not funny, is not cute, is not remotely clever (just look around at who's doing it) and makes a mockery of over 900 deaths, many of them children who chose nothing. Additionally realize that in jumping to this extreme, you have fallen into the "Hitler trap" of intelligent discussion and debate: anytime you must evoke something this far off topic, this near the vanishing point of rationality, you have already lost. You weren't capable of keeping the disagreement here in the normal framework in which it exists, so you had to demonize, oversimplify and distort. Finally, go and fuck yourself, you annoying twat.
Listen up, Right Wing, I'm gonna explain to you how to hate a President, since you obviously do, and because I have some past experience in this arena. Foremost, you have to come up with some rational reasons to hate the guy. Don't get me wrong - you're entitled by the Constitution and basic human nature to your irrational, nasty gutter hate. It's cool - everyone does it. What we'd all like, though, is if you could keep your trap shut about it until you have something intelligent, or at least informed, to say about it. Have some fucking patience. See, those of us on the left hated Bush from jump because we all believed that the Supreme Court bent over for him after Florida cheated us out of a fair election. Speaking personally, though, I let it go. I did. And that's fucking hard for me. I let it go and I waited for real reasons to hate his monkey ass. And he gave them to me. After 9/11, I actually had the passing thought that maybe, just maybe, it was good that "take charge and give 'em hell" Republicans were in charge. It quickly passed. It quickly passed when the Bush White House squandered the goodwill of the entire world like it was nothing, and fucked this country into a two-front unwinnable war on an abstract while failing to capture the one man singled out as responsible for the act that precipitated the whole chain of events. Now - THERE, children, are some reasons to hate.
I say that to say this: You don't have anything yet, other than you're a bunch of fucking soreheads who lost an election. It's almost five months later - let it go. If you don't like democracy, move. In the first 100 days the Obama White House has the highest approval rating in years from the American public, they've begun to deal with the fucked economy, they've had some missteps in legislation and dealing with torture stuff left over from Monkeyface, but nothing catastrophic. Not yet. Wait for it. Have some fucking perspective. Mature. Grow. Shut up for six months, clear your throat and find your voice instead of just screaming at whatever happens, praying for a fatal flaw. Be a part of a discussion, and stop going along with all the other pissed off morons I run into on a daily basis.
And it was Flavor Aid, you stupid pricks. Get your facts straight.