Sunshine on the Draculeft by Lee Emmerich Jamison

INCOME GAP WIDENING! HEALTHCARE DISASTER! The well-worn dogma of the left is that modern American economics is a horror tale for the working folk. Well, Not so fast. A couple of articles on the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal cast a little sunshine on the left’s own dark lair.

I can hear the howls now. Portraying the political left in the same light (or lack thereof) as the vampires of old? The gall! Think of it, though. Something that promises eternal life gets transplanted from places where it has held fast for ages, a place where it has sapped the lifeblood of the region, to a new place filled with life. In Bram Stoker's Dracula the story's namesake has so devastated the Carpathian region (interestingly enough, modern-day former Soviet satellites Romania, Slovakia, and the Ukraine) in which he originated that he needs new sources of life on which to feed. He leaves his native land to take up residence in England, where he starts an "ever widening circle of darkness". In real life Europe today, and in much of American culture, there are people who wax nostalgic eighteen years after the fall of the Berlin wall for the old promises of Communism and the socialist ideal. Never do they suspect they are speaking of the governmentalized version of the vampire.

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