As Halloween draws nigh, let me share a perception about vampires and their kind.
Vampire movies usually start with a pure host population. Blissful and content–they live their lives unaware that something has arrived in their midst that means to change everything. Meanwhile, the vampire enters, begins living off the host, and sets about to solidify its base and multiply its form into the host population. The movie ends one of two ways. The host population recognizes the threat and finds a way to neutralize it…or the host population slowly dwindles away as more and more are 'converted' to the new, alien form.
Now, about their ilk. This gets a little awkward, as it will distress some. But it must be said.
The year is 1919. Russia has just endured the Bolshevek revolution. Communism is on the rise as they seek to replicate their success in other countries. The United States population has existed now as a constitutional republic for nearly 150 years. Blissful. Content. They live their lives unaware that something has arrived in their midst that means to change everything. Members of Russia's communist party arrive in the US. Chicago to be precise. They live off the host population, and set about to solidify their base and multiply their form into the host population. Hoping to change this thriving constitutional republic into an autocracy, they set up what they call the Communist Party USA.
Over the ensuing years, as these people toiled and their efforts bore fruit, some of the host residents recognized the threat and attempted to ferret it out of the population. One notable senator held inquisitions to identify those intruders and exclude them from the population. Others, unaware of the threat, made him a laughing stock.
For nearly eighty years, the strain replicated into the host population–stealthily morphing into different forms. 'Progressive' they flatteringly called themselves–and 'liberal.' They pursued very specific goals which included taking control of schools, unions, media, etc. Busily, invisibly, they worked–solidifying their base and converting more and more of the host population.
Today, it seems, that strain has gained critical mass and is now treating the host population as outsiders. Teabaggers they call them. And intolerant and racist. They use the freedom and openness of their host population against them. They manipulate votes to solidify their power. They use media they control to mock and degrade their hosts. They use schools they control to convert the host children to their strain. They use unions they control to steer elections their way. At every turn, it seems, they get stronger and the host population flounders.
Where this story goes, no one knows for sure. But a sober look would indicate that, unless something dramatic changes, it doesn't end well for the host population.
