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Long before Jones' [[Rainbow Coalition|Rainbow family]] drank the Kool-Aid,<ref><small>"In 1978, Jim Jones and his impeccably [[progressive]] inner circle murdered nearly 1,000 sect followers, mostly Black families, rather than relinquish utopia. Today U.S. policy elites carry out war and subversion to export liberal democracy across the globe while racial antagonism at home takes on ever more vicious forms....What we know to be the actual [[diversity]] and dignity of creation among mankind must be abolished and re-engineered into Diversity, Inc., as life attains all the depth of a Doritos commercial. A coming unified race of [[Wal-Mart]]ians is to worship at the altar of [[Mammon]], whose incarnation will utter blasphemies earlier foreshadowed by the Reverend Jim Jones: ''I am freedom. I am justice. I am peace, and I am equality. I AM GOD!"''</small> [https://jaysanalysis.com/2015/06/02/the-peoples-temple-cult-the-rainbow-nation/ The People’s Temple Cult & the Rainbow Nation],  Andrew Rurikson, June 2, 2015.</ref> the Democratic party leadership at the national, state, and local level did.<ref>''[https://calwatchdog.com/2013/12/18/actually-jim-jones-cult-was-bay-area-democrats/ Actually, Jim Jones cult was Bay Area Democrats]'', by John Seiler, 18 Dec, 2013. https://calwatchdog.com/</ref>

Long before Jones' [[Rainbow Coalition|Rainbow family]] drank the Kool-Aid,<ref><small>"In 1978, Jim Jones and his impeccably [[progressive]] inner circle murdered nearly 1,000 sect followers, mostly Black families, rather than relinquish utopia. Today U.S. policy [[elitism|elites]] carry out war and subversion to export liberal democracy across the globe while racial antagonism at home takes on ever more vicious forms....What we know to be the actual [[diversity]] and dignity of creation among mankind must be abolished and re-engineered into Diversity, Inc., as life attains all the depth of a Doritos commercial. A coming unified race of [[Wal-Mart]]ians is to worship at the altar of [[Mammon]], whose incarnation will utter blasphemies earlier foreshadowed by the Reverend Jim Jones: ''I am freedom. I am justice. I am peace, and I am equality. I AM GOD!"''</small> [https://jaysanalysis.com/2015/06/02/the-peoples-temple-cult-the-rainbow-nation/ The People’s Temple Cult & the Rainbow Nation],  Andrew Rurikson, June 2, 2015.</ref> the Democratic party leadership at the national, state, and local level did.<ref>''[https://calwatchdog.com/2013/12/18/actually-jim-jones-cult-was-bay-area-democrats/ Actually, Jim Jones cult was Bay Area Democrats]'', by John Seiler, 18 Dec, 2013. https://calwatchdog.com/</ref>

The question for 21st century Americans is, "''What is the significance of Jim Jones, and Why should we bother reading about him?'' Like it or not, Jim Jones is now part of American history, as [[Adolf Hitler]] is part of German history. ''What can we learn?'' Much, yet there is still much to learn.

The question for 21st century Americans is, "''What is the significance of Jim Jones, and Why should we bother reading about him?'' Like it or not, Jim Jones is now part of American history, as [[Adolf Hitler]] is part of German history. ''What can we learn?'' Much, yet there is still much to learn.