Have you ever been told that you have drunk the cool-aide of someone well known? If so, what was the reason?

I’ve seen a lot of unfounded claims that everyone who voted for Obama drank his kool-aid. Although this is on the internet where people can be anonymous.

Nope, don’t think I ever went that kind of gaga for any one thing.

“Drink the Kool-Aid” is another way of saying has blind trust or faith that the person in authority has your best interests at heart and wouldn’t hurt you.

We had new management come in, deliver a great visionary speech, and people hopefully embraced the concept of change, became excited about the new management direction. Six weeks later, the guy fired 100 people without batting an eye.

It’s also:

A reference to the 1978 cult mass-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. Jim Jones, the leader of the group, convinced his followers to move to Jonestown. Late in the year he then ordered his flock to commit suicide by drinking grape-flavored Kool-Aid laced with potassium cyanide. In what is now commonly called “the Jonestown Massacre”, 913 of the 1100 Jonestown residents drank the Kool-Aid and died. One lasting legacy of the Jonestown tragedy is the saying, “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid.” This has come to mean, “Don’t trust any group you find to be a little on the kooky side.” or “Whatever they tell you, don’t believe it too strongly”. The phrase can also be used in the opposite sense to indicate that one has embraced a particular philosophy or perspective.
Alice: Hey, did you hear that Joe is working on the Nader campaign?
Bob: Yeah, he really drank the Kool-Aid on that one.

From Urban dictionary, which is like Wiki – anyone can contribute.

Personally – I don’t think it caught on. It’s been a while – and while we already use google as a verb, how often do you use this expression?

I seem to hear that these days often. Yesterday?, someone said “people must have drunk his cool-aide if they fall for that trick”, when Jon Stewart, one or 2 days ago, said “they mean Muslim money” in a southern accent. It was during the segment involving a clip of Karl Rove’s….when talking about the need to know who contributed to which political party, how much or something. They thought Jon Stewart needed to use the southern accent to make people sound dumb, because he couldn’t come up with an actual arguement for his position.

My point exactly: despite being used on a network show with huge ratings – you still won’t hear/see it used on a daily basis. I read several newspapers and a couple of magazines either daily or weekly, respectively. I have yet to see it in print. I watch both Fox and CNN (reserve judgment – it’s in a professional context) and I haven’t heard it. I use google every other minute.

Yeah I guess so. It could be used more often. There are too many occasions, I think.

I have been told that on numerous occasions and in every single case, it was by an extreme ideologue who is unable to counter the facts I provided in support of a policy position or idea, and unwilling to have facts interfere with their ideology. In short, the only people who argue that way are projecting. It is they who in fact, have drunk the Kool-Aid™.

I once heard “drink the Kool-Aid” to suggest that the persons involved were irrevocably committed to a course of action.

The concept is related to the two-step flow theory.

Wait, I did once drink the Kool Aid! I went to work for Saturn after buying one of their cars, stayed on near two years before my car engine blew up.

@Blackberry It’s not a terribly unreasonable claim. Lots of people voted for the guy because he said that was going to make it all better, even though there’s more wrong than he can fix, and that he’s hammering away in the wrong direction.

@Nullo Perhaps some did. But we really had 2 viable choices. One sung fake Beach boy songs about bombing Iran and went totally unhinged when the economy started to falter. The other kept his cool and did what he reasonably could to try to fix the problem. I didn’t vot thinking this one is God incarnate and the other is not quite as perfect. I voted based on the choice given. Obama has done a great deal I disagreed with. In several instances now, history has proved me right. But the alternative McCain Presidency would have been an unmitigated disaster. He planned to have one of the chief architects of the bill that insured the Wall Street meltdown as his chief economic adviser. He would have taken us straight into a depression.

I worked with a guy, oddly enough named James Jones who used this phrase quite often. People were worried he was rubbing off on me (Conspiracy theorist) and would use this phrase in reference to my having repeated something he said. Does he count in reference to the original question?

“He would have taken us straight into a depression.”

@ETpro You better knock on wood, I don’t think we’re in the clear, yet (it would be this way right now no matter who was running the show).

@ETpro And there are still loads of people who think that Barry is the best thing to ever happen to the country, because he’s black. :\

Keep in mind that the brand name is Kool-Aid ,with a “k-”.

No, not personally or even on the internet, but those with whom I’ve share political views with have been described as such.

Here’s the Wikipedia article:
Drinking the Kool-Aid

Here’s the RationalWiki article:
Kool-Aid drinker
They charge that many a Kool-Aid drinker him/her-self is often on the Kool-Aid.

Before Jonestown, there was:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Yahoo! Answers has a lot of questions, some loaded, about it.
Here is the search results

“Why do people keep saying liberals drink the kool-aid?

“Are you still drinking the new liberal kool aid flavor, Fruity Raines?

Did the Far Left Jim Jones special batch of Liberal cyanide laced Kool Aid cause Obamacare to drown?

@ZAGWRITER I wrote a piece on another site, complete with statistics, showing what would have happened in 2008 if we had elected to stay the Bush course. We’ve got another decision coming up on November 2. If we make the wrong choice, and vote in Teapublicans who plan to shut the government down, they you bet we aren’t out of the woods yet. We will fall into a double-dip recession and if those ideologues in the Senate aren’t smart enough to end their obstruction, we will go into a fullblown depression.

@ETpro I’m willing to bet that you’re wrong about the legislative philosophies of the so-called Teapublicans.

@Nullo Maybe they are just lying when they say that’s what they intend to do. More experienced Republican strategists have warned them not to say they are planning that. Trey think that’s the mistake Republicans made in 1994, telling Americans they would shut it down. They should hve instead just done it and claim they had nothing to do with it. They paid a price for the last time they did it. We will know if enough get in to try it a second time.

@ETpro Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I’m willing to bet that you’re wrong about the aftermath of the legislative philosophies of the so-called Teapublicans. The depression and all.
“Teapublican” is a misleading portmanteau; the Tea Party base is technically non-partisan.

You know, it’s stuff like this that has me really excited about politics this time around. It’s a new experience for me. If we’re lucky, we might get to see major philosophical shifts in government.

@Nullo Aha. This is one time I most sincerely hope I am wrong, or that if I am right, the election shakes out in a way to close the door on that happening.