"It was a way that the population was getting to exercise the fact that they felt like they hadn't been listened to by the Bush administration," Lauro said. "Nobody really wanted that war, and yet we were going to war anyway."
A Zombie PING for ya!
Zombies are euphemisms for mindless, soulless hordes of people. In the 1950s and 60s, it was communists. Today, it is the politically correct way to portray people like ObamaGirl, the ObamaPhone woman, the “Obama’s gonna pay my car payment” woman, the purple-shirted rent-a-mobs, the “if Zimmerman is acquitted, we gonna riot” crowd, etc. In other words, it is still communists, but now its the domestic ones!
Nice try, but this trend has been around far longer. Dawn of the Dead came out in the 60s I think.
Not to mention zombie survival video games were popularized by Resident Evil in the 90s, so does that make that backlash against Clinton?
Someone needs to point out to the author that the Zombie fad peaked under Obama, not Bush. The Vampire fad peaked under Bush.
An observation I’ve made.
I’ve noticed that most of my liberal friends are into things like Zombie walks where they dress like Zombies.
My Conservative friends are also into the Zombie fad, but on the other end, they are into the whole ‘Zombie hunter’ thing (Zombie targets, Zombie ammo, etc).
Zombies are popular IMO for several reasons.
1) Fits the atheistic world view of today that other monsters (vampires, demons etc.) fail to fit in by being too supernatural.
2) Luddite fear of science going too far, creating a bio-weapon with severe backlash in a global pandemic.
3) Plausibility. Zombies are a dumb threat in which the lazy average Joe can be heroic.
This is all about and nothing more than a barometer of a retarded American attention span.
Not long ago it was Vampires
Now the Zombies are fading.
Next up, aliens
Until that fades and we/they recycle the meme.
Maybe they have Evolution of Intelligence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luxnPhVQUGI
Starve the beast. Avoid buying new clothes.