That presumes that vampires are at all united. If the highest ranked active vampires are all trying to kill each other, and the lowest ranked active vampires are all trying to kill them, too, that's different.Occluded Sun wrote:I hold Bill Clinton in utter contempt, and even I recognize that he neither lied nor - in the specific context of the hearing - was deceptive under oath. The prosecutor in that case established a very clear, unambiguous, and well-defined meaning of "sexual intercourse" that was practically limited to hetero bits combined.
Granted, he totally lied in the media, since by general standards of sexual activity he totally did have sex.
To return to the topic:
Even if vampires only seized power in the modern world - so that all the folklore and stories associated with vampires are correct - they still would never break the masquerade if they had something to lose by doing so.
If the highest-ranked active vampires agreed that there was no longer a need to hide, then they'd have to believe that either they could ignore their weaknesses or had a specific advantage that made those weaknesses irrelevant.
If vamps started coming out, then something very, very bad would be going on, and humanity would have a real problem.
The newbies who grew up watching Spongebob might not agree with the Masquerade on principle.
You might have a situation where breaking the masquarade is the vampire equivalent of the nuclear option, but someone does it because the person who does it first has an advantage against all the other vamps when the stakes start flying.