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It seems to me that everytime I'm reading or listening to something by a Republican party hack or one of the FOX minions, they inevitably refer to liberals and moderates who find their intellectually bankrupt, racist, homophobic rants repugnant or laughably jejune as Kool-Aid Drinkers.
So I'm puzzled. As a Canadian, I live in a country that has been mostly molded into a civil, inclusive society by liberal liberals and conservative liberals over the last 60 years.
Under the liberals, we ended up with surplus budgets while offering social benefits that help ensure the eradication of grinding poverty. The liberals legalized gay marriage across the country.
We don't actually curl our lips and sneer at one another for our political party beliefs, perhaps because we have a pluralistic parliamentary democracy and are essentially forced to craft our policies through consensus and respect for our underlying Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Within families and households it is not uncommon to have members voting for opposing candidates.
Of course, we've just gone through a toxic phase where a neo-con cobbled together the disaffected right-wing, homophobic, racists from out west under the Reform Party with the last of the red and blue Tories in order to grab the brass ring and attempt to push us to the right. While the attempts to use the American approach of isolating and dividing the eloctorate on wedge issues has been tried up here during the Bush years, it has generally backfired.
Now I did a quick poll among my acquaintances and it turns out that as children almost all of us drank Kool-Aid. Of all flavours. With lots of sugar and sometimes with fruit mixed in. The only person I found who still drinks Kool-Aid is a conservative woman who is also a mom and likes the grape with a shot of Vodka in it.
So what is with this Kool-Aid drinking nonsense?
From where I sit, it seems far more likely that the mormon neo-evangelist Glenn Beck behaves far more like Jim Jones than any of the liberal politicians or media personalities I'm familiar with. He has the same drug-addled messiah complex that Jim Jones seemed to be afflicted with as well as the same paranoic personality. It seems that the NASCAR tea-partiers appear to be much more likely to follow their new false god to the punch-bowl than any of the fractious and more independent minded, nuanced thinkers who consider themselves to be liberal.
Is Kool-Aid Drinker the best shot that the conservative trolls and intellectual midgets have to bandy about?
Just wondering.
Oh, and by the way, it was actually FlaVor-Aid® that the Jonestown crowd drank.
So I'm puzzled. As a Canadian, I live in a country that has been mostly molded into a civil, inclusive society by liberal liberals and conservative liberals over the last 60 years.
Under the liberals, we ended up with surplus budgets while offering social benefits that help ensure the eradication of grinding poverty. The liberals legalized gay marriage across the country.
We don't actually curl our lips and sneer at one another for our political party beliefs, perhaps because we have a pluralistic parliamentary democracy and are essentially forced to craft our policies through consensus and respect for our underlying Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Within families and households it is not uncommon to have members voting for opposing candidates.
Of course, we've just gone through a toxic phase where a neo-con cobbled together the disaffected right-wing, homophobic, racists from out west under the Reform Party with the last of the red and blue Tories in order to grab the brass ring and attempt to push us to the right. While the attempts to use the American approach of isolating and dividing the eloctorate on wedge issues has been tried up here during the Bush years, it has generally backfired.
Now I did a quick poll among my acquaintances and it turns out that as children almost all of us drank Kool-Aid. Of all flavours. With lots of sugar and sometimes with fruit mixed in. The only person I found who still drinks Kool-Aid is a conservative woman who is also a mom and likes the grape with a shot of Vodka in it.
So what is with this Kool-Aid drinking nonsense?
From where I sit, it seems far more likely that the mormon neo-evangelist Glenn Beck behaves far more like Jim Jones than any of the liberal politicians or media personalities I'm familiar with. He has the same drug-addled messiah complex that Jim Jones seemed to be afflicted with as well as the same paranoic personality. It seems that the NASCAR tea-partiers appear to be much more likely to follow their new false god to the punch-bowl than any of the fractious and more independent minded, nuanced thinkers who consider themselves to be liberal.
Is Kool-Aid Drinker the best shot that the conservative trolls and intellectual midgets have to bandy about?
Just wondering.
Oh, and by the way, it was actually FlaVor-Aid® that the Jonestown crowd drank.
I never said Singapore was perfect. No place is. But I assume you've never been to Singapore have you? (If not, you're doing exactly what the wingnuts do, by Googling a phrase that supports their position and tears down the point, so they can post it without reading it along with supporting understanding and context to the situation.)
