The Actors on ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Exemplify Everything That’s Wrong With Liberalism

The most political show on television today involves shambling ghouls that feed on human flesh and the meat puppets who try to avoid being feasted upon. “Fear the Walking Dead,” the “Walking Dead” spin-off set at the beginning of the zombie outbreak, offers us a view of the liberal, sensitive type of people who put Obama into office and – probably inadvertently – demonstrates the utter moral and intellectual bankruptcy of everything they believe in.

Modern liberalism is an unfortunate byproduct of civilization. The fact that our lives are not largely devoted to hunting and gathering food and fighting off marauders who would rape, enslave, and/or kill us, allows a large segment of our society to forget that this is the natural state of man. You didn’t have liberals in the Dark Ages because a liberal would last about ten seconds, expiring with a spear through his guts after telling the local warlord that he disapproved “of this patriarchal, phallocentric, cisnormative power structure.”

Now, of course a substantial number of Americans pay tribute to humanity’s past by understanding human nature and often by preparing to confront the forces of chaos. These people are conservatives. We conservatives expect problems, and expect that we will have to solve them ourselves. We generally know how to hunt, to gather food, and we have guns and know how to use them. And we understand that society always – always – teeters on the edge of falling apart.

Well, I was bored yesterday and had some time on my hands to waste and watched the 4 episodes I had DVR’d.

I’m guessing this is LA where this happens (looks like it). I think the most realistic part is the downtown scene with the senseless rioting and destruction. If this really happened, this is probably what you’d see there - mostly.

And yes, the huddled masses in the outer areas would be depending on government to come to the rescue.

To my mind, the main characters are detestable sheep with no redeeming value I can empathize with. I’d probably have more sympathy for a zombie character (if there was a main one from whose perspective parts of “a day in the life..” were interspersed with the other blather).

I guess I could continue watching if there was some plan to have the guidance counselor lady turn “Sarah Connor” or something. Otherwise, forget it.

Protected “enclaves” - safe zones where the government takes care of your needs. The truth is the government would quarantine and abandon the whole damn area - after the DC politicians and poweratti were taken to a safe location. And, at some point they’d nuke it.

Robert Kirkman started out in comics anti-religion but largely apolitical, but his liberal colleagues have turned him full-blown leftist. I don’t disagree that what you’re seeing is on display, but I don’t think he realizes it or is doing it to make a point against leftism.

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