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Seax
The problem with Jonestown is that the people were never really given a choice in the matter of the koolaid. That wasn't very democratic.
Jones should have made two batches of cyanide-poisoned koolaid (actually it was flavoraid, but since most people are used to the expression 'drinking the koolaid' I'll stick with that name), one red and one blue. Then he should have allowed public debate and discussion about which flavour, blue or red, they ought to commit mass suicide with.
Leaders would emerge for each faction, and he could allow them each to set up their own radio stations, all ultimately loyal to him of course, so they could each argue the merits of their preferred flavour. There might even have been libertarians to offer that instead of voting on the issue, each man should be allowed to decide for himself whether to drink the blue or red koolaid.
If he had done that, Jonestown would have been an open society. But even open societies have limits. Some extremists might have suggested that Jonestown ought to pour all of the poisoned coolaid into a deep pit, toss Jim Jones into it and then fill it in with rocks. Such men and their hatred obviously should have had no place in Jonestown, and the leaders of both the blue and red factions should come together to oppose them and support anti-hate groups in their efforts to monitor and counter the anti-koolaid hatemongerers and their disinformation.
Then Jonestown would have been a proper democracy, Anglosphere style.