Fire-breathing rich pillage, terrorize America

If people know me, they understand that I am a nerd when it comes to politics, science fiction and fantasy.  I especially love to read and discuss plot points and ideas when it comes to fantasy fiction. Even though these stories are completely outlandish and impossible, I really enjoy the escapism—it makes life more interesting.

Today, I would like to talk about some of the most well known creatures that exists in fantasy—dragons. They are one of the most common fantasy creature and major enemy in the entire realm of medieval fantasy fiction and Chinese mythology, and they are the major goal for the hero to slay.

You might wonder why I'm talking about flying lizards in a political column. I am here to say that America has dragons of its own.

These dragons are not exactly the ones like in the stories, but they share similarities that can't be ignored. These dragons that terrorize the countryside and probably need a good slaying to free the people are the super-rich or the 1 percent.

Dragons are incredibly powerful creatures to the point where they are almost invincible and sometimes immortal, and you better believe these dragons use this to their advantage. Dragons constantly fly above the countryside without acknowledging or even understanding the plight of the people below them. All they know is that the people have something they want, and their presence can eventually become dangerous.

When the dragon does lower itself and land on the level of the people living on the ground, they begin to destroy and wreck the livelihoods of the people living there. The people live in terror of the dragons that fly above and do everything in their power to make sure they are safe from danger and that the dragons are happy.

Dragons also have the habit of amassing large amounts of gold and other shiny valuables from destructions of kingdoms and homes of people.

The average treasure troves of dragons are filled with giant pools of gold and valuables that can make any man who takes them down the richest in the land, giving him true power.

The dragons have no real purpose for this wealth. I mean, why do they need to buy anything—they're dragons? But even if they did spend the money what would they spend it all on?

Usually dragons get slain by a champion of the people, and the people are finally free of the tyranny of the evil dragons, but this is where the major difference between dragons and rich people are.

There is not going to be a champion to bring down the rich, for those dragons had the great idea of paying off the king with some of gold they "earned."