Allow me to be serious for a moment.

Okay, there's a certain phrase that's used to say someone, or some people, are blindly believing what they are told without independent thought. "Drinking the Kool-Aid."

If you use it, stop. Seriously. Especially if you know what it references. Double shame on you if you do.

For those that don't know, it references the Jonestown massacre of 1978. A cult, led by a completely screwy dude named Jim Jones, committed mass suicide. Not all of them died, but enough did. How'd they do it? You guessed it...poisoned Kool-Aid. Actually, it was Flavor Aid, but whatever.

For starters, referencing this heinous occurrence with generally benign trust and faithfulness is an over-analogy. You're fighting a grease fire with a fire-copter drop. Over kill. Why not compare your slightly overbearing boss to Hitler, while you're at it?

Next, it's incredibly insulting to whoever you say it too. Especially if you know the origins.

Thirdly, how disrespectful is it to diminish what happened down there by watering down the meaning? Yes, a good number of those people willingly drank the poison, but others were so damn intimidated by the whole thing (not to mention they had "practiced" the ritual many times with no ill consequences, setting up false trust) that they basically had no choice. There's really no way getting around it, using the phrase is just wrong. Wrong wrong wrong.

So please stop using it. I was nice enough to say please, you can be nice enough to not use the phrase. Unless of course, the situation is dire and possibly fatal.

Here's a link for those that want more info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown