What is the role of satire in politics...?
Ok, usually there is no such thing as dumb questions, but honestly? Satire and sarcasm have a massive role in politics and in everyday life.
Politics are dull.
That's a fact.
None of the citizens wants to hear the tax-cut debate again or the stabs at illegal imigrants. We want to laugh! We want to be watching a telivised speech (since the vast majority of us aren't important enough to be invited to the real deal) and pointing at the screen saying "that senator just OWNED you." It's extremely difficult to be interested in politics when you're listening to a monotone robot blab on and on and on about education. News flash. We're all educated enough already to know that you're boring us out of our pants. Throw in some snappy comments that will make the opposition cower in his tweed blazer and camel-piss-colored loafers.
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