Vampire Capitalism

[McCamy Taylor]

I know something scarier than witches, goblins, werewolves and ghosts. I know something that would make a demon out of Hell green with envy. It isn’t AIDS or global warming or nuclear winter. It is much more sinister than that. Vampire Capitalism, the specter that George Bush Sr. once labeled “Voodoo Economics” is coming for you. Under Vampire Capitalism, the well being of the consumer is of no importance. Business enriches itself directly from public coffers. Therefore, tax money spent educating your kids or fixing your father’s heart or putting food on your table is wasted money---money that could be better spent on corporate welfare, preferably for some company on the far side of the globe, whose executives do not have to mingle with the starved, battered, broken American middle class.



Vampires suck your blood.

Vampire capitalists suck up your savings, your home and your health, until you are forced to sell your blood---your plasma---in order to put food on the table.

Vampires wear human faces and dress in fine, human clothes.

Vampire capitalists dress themselves in American flags and call themselves “American Crossroads” and “Americans for Prosperity."

Vampires treat humans like cattle.

Vampire capitalists treat you and your family like livestock. You are herded here and there, told what you can eat and where you can sleep. You have no property, since you are the property of your corporate master. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Don’t make me laugh. You were put on this earth to feed some billionaire’s need for more money, more wealth. If there is a profit to be made from your suffering and death, you can kiss your life goodbye.

Vampires lie to their familiars, promising them immortality if they will help supply them with victims.

Vampire capitalists lie to their right wing (white) followers, promising them wealth and power if they will vote to keep other workers (Black and Latino) poor, hungry, homeless and sick.

In the end, a vampire’s familiar is just another farm animal, to be slaughtered when it has outlived its usefulness.

In the end, a vampire capitalist’s familiar—the middle aged woman holding the “No cap and trade” sign at the Tea Party rally or the white man shouting “No Obamacare!”---- is just another farm animal, to be “put out to pasture” when it has outlived its usefulness.

Vampires have names like Dracula and Lestat.

Vampire capitalists have names like Big Oil, Wall Street and the Health Insurance Industry.

Vampires often go to other countries in order to find unsuspecting victims.

Vampire capitalists often come from other countries to America to do things that they would never do at home, like price gouge ailing seniors who need medication or illegally foreclosing on families’ homes.

Vampires say that they love you---just before they sinks their fangs into your neck.

Vampire capitalists sing The Star Spangled Banner and quote Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus—before they sink their fangs into your neck.

If you think that this is hyperbole, then you have not been paying attention. Our airways are full of ads that promise “jobs and freedom”----ads funded by Saudi princes who would just as soon see us all burn in Hell, but only after we have squandered our wealth paying top dollar for their dwindling reserves of oil. Ads funded by Indian businessmen who think that our servicemen and women should die to build their TransAfghanistan pipeline. Ads funded by British and Swiss bankers who have conspired to sell us mortgages we could not afford so that they can snatch up American real estate for foreign investors, who will---if we are very, very lucky---rent our houses back to us. That is, if they decide that we are worthy of having homes.

Happy Halloween, America. Enjoy the holiday. It may be the last one you ever get. Oh, and don't forget. Vampires are weak to sunlight, and vampire capitalism is weak to an informed electorate which faces its current crisis with eyes wide open rather than hiding in closets and praying that it will all just go away.

[leftstreet]

1. Is there any other kind?

:shrug:

[McCamy Taylor]

3. Thank you for asking. Many businesses rely upon a prosperous middle class.

Transportation, travel, manufacturering, retail----they all do better when the American working class is secure.

There are plenty of companies that sell a real product.

And then there are the B Ark folks from Hitchhiker's Guide. The ones who do not do anything---and who expect to get paid a whole lot of money for not doing it. The ones that actually do better when people are broke and desperate.

Do not equate Wall Streets with the folks who build houses. Their interests are opposed. Do not mistake Big Oil for the airline industry--they are mortal enemies.

[glitch]

7. Well said. nt

[Blue_Tires]

16. +1

[Dappleganger]

2. Un'reccd for blatant vampire-bashing.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Drale]

4. You know how you kill a vampire?

stab it in the heart with a steak made from an Aspen tree, know I dont know were the closest Aspen tree to me is but if someone has one they should get right on that.

[bertman]

10. The last one I killed I had to use a holly stake. The aspen didn't work.

B-)

[Scruffy1]

17. We have lots of them in Minnesota

If I would have know that they stopped corporate vampires I would have built a stake factory years ago. But the truth is that as long as they control the media we will never get away from their fangs. It's just not Faux news, its the whole lot of them.

[leveymg]

19. "The Aspen steaks all turned. How about chicken?" - Scooter to Judy, Judy, Judy.

:popcorn: Tastes like chicken . . .

[Jim Sagle]

21. Chuck steak works best.

;)

[rainy]

5. Nice, make a facebook version and put it out there.

[Mimosa]

6. Excellent! K&R! n/t

[w4rma]

8. Vampires can't see themselves in mirrors. Vampire capitalists are holier than thou hypocrites. (nt)

or something like that... :)

[Hannah Bell]

9. nice.

[bertman]

11. Excellent analogy, McCamy. Rec.

My favorite line from any vampire movie is in 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' by Francis Ford Coppola when Gary Oldman playing Count Dracula introduces himself.

"I ham Drach hoolia"

[disillusioned73]

20. Ahhh, Gary Oldman...

my favorite actor... EVER!!

rec, great op

:dem:

[laughingliberal]

12. K & R nt

[Mosaic]

13. An old game

Since the civil war, the sheeple have been used, abused, and confused by the filthy rich and this evil trick. Sunlight, intelligence, a new plan are all needed, and we need leaders to implement it.

[Greyhound]

14. K&R

[Capitalocracy]

15. Excellent and very true, but let me name one difference.

Instead of hiding from crosses, these vampires carry them.

(above work by Edward Kienholz)

[raccoon]

18. Empires are destroyed by vampires. Rec'd. nt

[txlibdem]

22. Laughing and crying at the same time

Love this topic. If I had one criticism of the OP I would say that he/she is far too right wing for me. ;-)

My way of saying "vampire capitalists" is the term "Capitalistas" which I define as an insurgent group that has been waging guerrilla warfare against the Middle Class and the poor for over 70 years, perhaps longer. As with all insurgencies they have both a political arm and a military or "quasi-military" arm.