Representative Jackie Speier, who was shot at by cultists at Jonestown in 1978, recently compared Donald Trump to Jim Jones in an interview. Quite naturally the YouTube video comments are stock full of people agreeing with it, and many of them saying things like "I have been saying this for four years" (which I don't believe for a second, because it's literally the first time I have ever heard anybody make that comparison, and believe me, I have followed way too much of the American leftist narratives and talking points.) They also compare American Republicans to the Jonestown cultists.
Both Representative Speier and the army of brainwashed drones parroting the same three things over and over in the YouTube comment sections are completely insane.
Jim Jones was a hard-core hard-line far-leftist Marxist Socialist who absolutely hated and loathed capitalism and the American government. He made this amply clear in his sermons, and it was one of his main talking points, and one of the core beliefs of his followers.
In fact, his beliefs and his sermons had an uncanny resemblance to many of the modern far-leftist social justice ideology. He believed the United States, very much including its government, to be deeply and inherently racist, that the government and the police were persecuting and killing black people, that the country borders and cities were patrolled by members of the KKK who would shoot black people on sight. When he and his followers established and moved to Jonestown, in Guyana (which they did to escape perceived governmental racist persecution), his rhetoric became ever more radical. Among other things, he claimed that the American government was literally building concentration camps for black people. (The cult members who survived the massacre described that most of the cultists just believed him and were completely convinced of what he was saying. They were so isolated that there was no way for them to get any news from America.)
He was a devout Marxist Socialist, and he made this very clear in his sermons, and thus all of his followers were likewise so. He hated and abhorred capitalism, and he idolized Communism, and especially the Soviet Union, which he considered pretty much an utopia. (In fact, he had for years been in talks with Soviet ambassadors to negotiate for their move to the Soviet Union instead of the Guyana, and from Guyana after they moved there. He also sent a lot of money to Soviet Union embassies because he wanted to support the country and Communism.)
I'm not making any of that up. You can look it up.
Thus, Jim Jones couldn't have been farther away from Trump and the American conservatives even if he tried. He was pretty much the polar opposite. In fact, his views aligned perfectly with the modern far-leftist social justice ideology. Many of their main talking points are eerily similar.
People who compare Trump to Jim Jones are just absolutely ignorant, and haven't made even a modicum of research about Jones.
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