{"id":7610,"date":"2016-12-20T10:06:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T15:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=7610"},"modified":"2017-01-07T16:24:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T21:24:22","slug":"vampires-and-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=7610","title":{"rendered":"Vampires&#8230;and Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that great scene in <strong>The Lost Boys<\/strong> with Max, the head Vampire?  I know I keep referencing that movie, but geez, it&#8217;s really on point in these SURREAL days.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Lost Boys (10\/10) Movie CLIP - The Bloodsucking Brady Bunch (1987) HD\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TgLe98ts0QU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So Max reminds the non-Corey kid of the Frog Brothers that you are helpless if you invite a vampire into your house.  So how is that relevant?  I just finished watching Part II of <strong>The Battle of Chile<\/strong>.  The documentary film was made in 1976, while the Pinochet takeover was happening.  Here&#8217;s the point: the good citizenry of Chile thought it was a fine idea for Augusto and the boys to take over the government, as strikes called by supporters of the Allende government caused life to become a trifle difficult in Santiago.  So with much help from the Nixon administration&#8217;s CIA, Allende was overthrown and killed himself, rather than being taken prisoner by the junta.  <\/p>\n<p>Over the following 15 or so years, 3,000 folk &#8216;disappeared&#8217; and repression was the name of the game. So the message here: be careful when you invite the Vampire in.  Listen to Max&#8217;s advice.  I think he knows of whence he speaks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/vampire-Donald.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/vampire-Donald.jpg\" alt=\"vampire-donald\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7614\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that great scene in The Lost Boys with Max, the head Vampire? I know I keep referencing that movie, but geez, it&#8217;s really on point in these SURREAL days. So Max reminds the non-Corey kid of the Frog Brothers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=7610\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7610"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7637,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions\/7637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}