drinking the koolaid

drinking the koolaid has become a common expression in american usuage often in a political but in many other arenas as well. The phrase is always used to denigrate the thinking/behavior of an opponent (your such an idiot you must have been drinking the koolaid) etc. To the extent the actions in Jonestown were viewed as a mass suicide, it is the largest such event in modern history and resulted in the largest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster (909 dead) until the events of September 11, 2001. Personally I find this usage horrendous in any context, those 909 dead were victims of a man no less evil than Hitler. I applaud sarcasm and use it frequently but "drinking the koolaid" is so far removed from acceptable exchange that I find it personally intolerable. "drinking the koolaid" whether used as "you support Obama's socialist agenda? you must be drinking the koolaid" or "those religious wackos must be drinking the koolaid" or "you voted for a republican, you must have been drinking the koolaid" and on and on and on. I hear the phrase and I get sick in the tummy and want to barf. It ain't funny folks. Those 900+ people were used in the worst possible manner, please let's not demean their deaths in such a callous manner as "drinking the koolaid" has become.