If you completed the Tenpenny Tower quest by letting the ghouls live with the humans and come back after about 3 in-game days, you’ll see a lot of parallels between the ghoul leader (Roy Phillips) and liberals. SPOILERS ahead:
Roy Phillips sits on his rump doing nothing like a typical NPC/liberal, and whines that he can’t get into Tenpenny for free (everyone else has to pay or be invited). If you manage to ‘convince’ the residents to let the ghouls in (even though the ghouls have done nothing to deserve it), the ghouls eventually kill off all the humans.
A similar parallel can be drawn between the ghouls and liberals. They whine when they don’t get free stuff, and when they DO get free stuff, they still demand more (resorting to violence when they can’t get their way).
I have completed ALL THE THINGS! At least I think I have ;)
I said this before on different threads, and KC, TADSLOS and I discuss it fairly frequently, but I swear that conservatives do game design for Bethesda. F3, Fallout New Vegas and The Elder Scrolls/Skyrim titles all have some fairly heavy duty morality plays going on and invariably, playing as a liberal will get you a fraction of the ‘life experience’ the games offer.
When one looks at the raiders in the Fallout games, what we are looking at are libs without their toys or their govt. derived power. They can’t build or produce anything on their own in a more primitive ‘world’ since they lack the skills most of us grew up with, so they band together and rob/kill and enslave. What good will that lesbian studies/art degree be when things go ‘native’?
In a real world SHTF scenario, I would bet the farm that’s what they become. I mean what can they do really? Can’t hunt, can’t fish, can’t farm, can’t do construction, don’t have basic survival skills like any mountain hick/farm boy, Drug dependent, expect someone else to produce so they can take...It’s all a mirror image of a raider. And as you said, ghouls. Same basic mentality.
I use Fallout, but really, any post apocalyptic novel comes to the same conclusions simply by deductive reasoning. They are the parasite class and all parasites cannot live without a host organism. Take away their government free ride/Democrat power and they devolve to their base form.
Raiders.