Politicians are worse than zombies

While lying in bed trying to ditch a migraine I had the realization that zombies are better than politicians.  I know, I know, it might sound a little crazy.  Zombies are rotting undead stumbling around trying to eat our brains, so what could be worse?  Seriously though, politicians are worse.

Consider this:

Zombies are just doing what they’re supposed to do.  Well, sure, they’re supposed to be dead, but through no fault of their own they aren’t so you can’t really hold that against them.  Actually, zombies are usually attributed to some strange government disaster (leaking toxins or a disease manufactured in some lab as a possible bio-weapon), which means that politicians are partially to blame because they approved the government funding to those mad scientists because of the perks they got from lobbyists.  Anyway, their diet happens to be people.  We don’t get mad at the lion for wanting to eat a gazelle; that’s just what they do.  True, we are used to being the top of the food chain, but when you have mad scientists meddling (thanks to politicians willing to sell out their constituents to some wealthy lobbyists) that can mess with the natural order of things.

So, yes, a zombie would dine on the brains of his own mother, but that still makes him better then a politician.  A zombie can’t help his desire to feed on what is his food source.  On the other hand you have politicians who, I truly believe, would sell the souls of their own mothers if it would benefit them.  I think they’d be willing to sell their own souls too, but along with honesty and integrity, it is a little hard to tell if politicians actually possess those items.  If they once had them then I think they must have been the first things sold off to the highest bidders.

Which brings us to another point: zombies are open about what they are.  Zombies wander around looking kind of disgusting, moan sometimes, and are just obviously zombies.  They’re up front about it, although realistically they might try to be a little more deceptive if they had the cognitive abilities, but even without deception there are still plenty of people that get easily trapped and make a tasty snack.  Politicians are deceptive.  They will say whatever it takes to get reelected and then do whatever the highest bidders want anyway.  Then again, just as there are plenty of people that get cornered in rooms with no escape by zombies there are also plenty that are surprised when a politician doesn’t follow through with his campaign promises.

So maybe zombies and politicians aren’t that different, but still I think politicians are worse.