Quote Originally Posted by Grendel View Post
Yep, satire with a thin veil of social critique is permitted, but none that makes any attempt to meaningfully subvert the neoliberal political engine. Yet another demonstration of how the right wing, """"left"""" wing, and corporate-media heralds of the neoliberal establishment collude to protect their own interests.

Your ails are not with "Trump Derangement Syndrome," but the bureaucracy of the system, which has disguised the perpetuation of its own interests as a "Moderate, bipartisan center", with a false promise of amicability that will not severely alienate any major faction of the population; when in reality, the interests of the general public are invariably disregarded in favor of said machine.
I'm going to do a real satire soon, probably in verse and more people will hate or like it than have actually read it. Honestly, I don't want to be moderate. I'm too full of sturm und drang to even find that notion appealing. I don't want to be on "the right side of history" either; I want to be involved in history, and better to be a villain than a cheerleader (luckily, I've already been involved in history.) "Hey gays, you're fired!" could totally be funny in a deeper context, just not as a schtick like Colbert does.

I think I'll revive the modified democratic socialist logo with the blue rose and call it The Sturm und Drang Party: Anything As Long As It's Not Moderate. Then we all vote Bernie Sanders. Though, more seriously, we probably could get away with an Immoderate Party with that exact logo, or some sort of Immoderate Society.