Progressives are vampires. I can prove it.
Accept that vampires are real. Ignore the mystical mumb-jumbo krep about souls: merely hyper-intelligent apex predators.
Being not complete dummies, they wish to conserve their stock of prey, homo sapiens.
Western Civilization is about progress. More social integration, better technology, members are citizens, not serfs. There are more of us, we're healthier. But we're better armed, now, and can effectively fight back. A society that can effectively organize to eliminate blood-sucking ghouls is, from vampire-kind's point of view, double-plus un-good.
Western Civilization is a danger to vampire-kind.
Eliminating this threat is tricky. Push one way, anniliation and mass die-off. Push too hard in another, you get a stronger culture.
The prudent thing for Vampires to do is slowly devolve this civilization into a mass of superstition, gullibility, and malleability. People who will depend not on themselves for their needs and their thinking: the President, the pop star on teevee, someone. They require prey smart enough to feed themselves, but not so smart they question what goes on around them: dumb down the schools, eliminate critical thinking.
The end-game is a gentle decline into fuedalism and a new Dark Age. Ideal hunting grounds for vampires.
Serfs, not citizens. Prey, not competition.
I submit that the actions of certain elements of the Progressive wing of politics in America are indistinguisible from the actions of blood-sucking ghouls.
Progressives are vampires, man. The majority of humans in that wing are, at best, deluded dupes.
Accept that vampires are real. Ignore the mystical mumb-jumbo krep about souls: merely hyper-intelligent apex predators.
Being not complete dummies, they wish to conserve their stock of prey, homo sapiens.
Western Civilization is about progress. More social integration, better technology, members are citizens, not serfs. There are more of us, we're healthier. But we're better armed, now, and can effectively fight back. A society that can effectively organize to eliminate blood-sucking ghouls is, from vampire-kind's point of view, double-plus un-good.
Western Civilization is a danger to vampire-kind.
Eliminating this threat is tricky. Push one way, anniliation and mass die-off. Push too hard in another, you get a stronger culture.
The prudent thing for Vampires to do is slowly devolve this civilization into a mass of superstition, gullibility, and malleability. People who will depend not on themselves for their needs and their thinking: the President, the pop star on teevee, someone. They require prey smart enough to feed themselves, but not so smart they question what goes on around them: dumb down the schools, eliminate critical thinking.
The end-game is a gentle decline into fuedalism and a new Dark Age. Ideal hunting grounds for vampires.
Serfs, not citizens. Prey, not competition.
I submit that the actions of certain elements of the Progressive wing of politics in America are indistinguisible from the actions of blood-sucking ghouls.
Progressives are vampires, man. The majority of humans in that wing are, at best, deluded dupes.