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Here’s a little anecdote I’d like to share with all of you:
In my government class, we had a unit where we learned about congress. My teacher’s way of getting us engaged was to have us randomly pick a real current congressperson, draft up our own bills and a present them in-character in a simulation of a congress session. Most of the kids who picked right-wing republican senators opted for a satirical, comically ridiculous version of the person they chose, you know just having fun with it, nothing genuinely harmful.
But I kid you not, one of my classmates who was playing a far-right senator (it might have been Mitch McConnell) introduced a fake bill to our congress- and I swear this is true- to make Canada a part of the US.
It was a joke. And we all thought it was funny because surely no one, even our notoriously crazy far-right politicians, would be that stupid.
Fast forward to yesterday when I’m first finding out what our president elect has been yammering about, and I realize that political satire is truly dead, because what could possibly be more morbidly deranged and comically absurd than the real world?