The cup is still being passed.
Who's Drinking the Kool-Aid? — Jonestown Revisited is available now on Amazon in hardcover and paperback.
In 1978, nine hundred and eighteen people lined up in a jungle clearing and drank because a man had convinced them that loyalty to him was loyalty to God. Today the cup is still being passed — from DOGE to the deportation machine, from a press under siege to courts stripped of independence. Preacher, entrepreneur, and civic voice Leroy Godfrey Jr. names it plainly — with a preacher's directness and a citizen's receipts.
Nineteen seventy-eight.
“In 1978, nine hundred and eighteen people lined up in a jungle clearing and drank poison because a man had convinced them that loyalty to him was the same as loyalty to God. Today, the cup is still being passed.”
Nobody at Jonestown thought they were in a cult. They thought they were the faithful. That is the whole warning of this book — and it is aimed at every one of us, whichever pitcher we grew up trusting.
It's not about intelligence.
Smart people drank at Jonestown. Doctors. Teachers. Believers. The cup does not check your diploma.
It's not about one party.
This book pours from both pitchers — red and blue — and weighs them on the same scale. No exceptions. No favorites.
It's about the cup in your hand.
Whoever is pouring, the question never changes: does this actually make sense?
“The cup is on the table. Common sense is still free. The question is whether you're willing to put it down and pick up your mind.”
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