Socialism: People's Temple 😬

"No one realized Jim was using socialism to bring people in and control people" - Leslie Wagner-Wilson (Jonestown Survivor)

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle

Jim Jones was just born at the wrong time (although he was invited to Jimmy Carter's inaugural due to support by the People's Temple during the campaign). Jones would have fit in just fine with Democrats in 2021. Then again, he fitted in with Democrats in the seventies. Amazing how people can get sucked into all sorts of cults.  

Interesting: 

But now, in November 1978, some of the original organizers of the trip were backing out. For despite much of his anti-American rhetoric and the cultish overtones of his movement, Jones was nevertheless an identifiable figure in local, state, even national political circles. He’d had meetings with Vice President Walter Mondale and first lady Rosalyn Carter. He’d welcomed California Gov. Jerry Brown to dinner. He organized enough members of the Peoples Temple to help get George Moscone elected mayor of San Francisco.

Rosalynn Carter at the People's Temple Circa 1976-77

The Jimmy Carter Jonestown Massacre I did not realize the connection, but am not surprised. 

AoSHQ: Morning Report 08.10.21

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