Zombies, Robots, and Aliens for Obama

Zombies, Robots, and Aliens Venn diagram...from a T-shirt

[Here is the column spawned by this diagram: http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5071  ]


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Zombies, Robots, and Aliens for Obama

Steven R. Berryman

[From The Tentacle April 30th 2012]

A cool T-shirt that contains a Venn diagram (three circles interconnected,) reminded me of the three sub-groups of people most responsible for the political base and future of the Obama 2012 campaign, now in its fourth year.

The labels inside the interconnected circles are the groups: zombies, robots, and aliens.

At first I assumed this to be a hip joke aimed at the science-fiction crowd, or movie “fangoria geeks,” computer nerds, paranoid “doomsday preppers,” and the like; then I pondered it.

Yes, indeed, the intersection of the three circles is not an Olympics logo or an old beer can brand, it’s a list of the Democrats top three constituent personalities!

Let us first take a look at zombies, as in “Night of the Living Dead,” for example. Zombies in movies are depicted as dead men walking, or the dead animated back to a partially living state, sometimes with a hunger for human flesh.

A zombie goes through the motions of life transfixed on a path that they cannot control, lurching single-mindedly toward a goal they do not understand; these “dead men walking” have given up their ability to think for themselves and also their open-mindedness (except for severe wounds) in some past life, and now politically they only live to vote from the dead, based upon what their ilk have always done, for good reasons or bad.

And we haven’t even gotten into vote fraud!

Zombies also eat their own should they fall off the wagon and consider any right-leaning path or organized thought. Ironically, emotionalism lives in Democrats and not zombies, but that’s wholly misleading.

If zombies could talk (they can only mumble incoherently and moan,) their favorite saying would be “because that’s the way we’ve always done it.” This can be observed in the modern world in the form of the lifelong Democrat.

Be warned now; some of them look just like humans!

Now consider the robots; these are metal made, non-human by definition, animate beings coined by Isaac Asimov, as in the flick “I Robot.” Original 1950s robots were shown as block-headed in fanzines like the classic pulp monthly “Analog.”.......(continued on the link below)

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