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Jones
Jonestown
suicide
temple
quickie
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Capitalism has its faults, and democracy has its potential dangers, as has any kind of government. Often mere lip service is given to the beliefs, but they exist. There has been a strong distaste among your people for the blind following of public figures. Your politicians are scoffed at as often as they are honored, and their human failings are examined sometimes with glee—overall, a good healthy policy on the part of the people.
Your religious leaders have freedom to say what they want to, and they have all of technology’s advances in communications at their service. As per James, when democracy does not work, people look elsewhere. Jones’s followers were the disinherited, the disenchanted, the poor and struggling, yet many of those people were intellectually gifted and felt their promise cut off.
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