What is the purpose of satire?
Contemporary politics are occupied by people of sweeping influence. Often organised groups who control money supply, law enforcement, policy-making in education, man-power planning and specific systems that affect the lives and well-being of ordinary citizens.
And ordinary citizens, among whom are the gullible and the ignorant.
The purpose of satire is to use humour to ridicule and expose/criticize people's stupidity or vices regarding topical issues and political decisions.
George Carlin while incisive in his analysis and acerbic in his delivery of satire, is also a masterful crowd-pleaser with humour.
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