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Drink the Kool-Aid

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What's the trouble with using the expression "drink the Kool-Aid" to connote blind, unquestioning obedience to a politician? A caller is bothered by the grisly origin of the phrase—a reference to the 1978 mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana—and thinks it's being used inaccurately, in any case. This is part of a complete episode.


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