**_A hilarious piece of political...
Monday, June 29, 2020
**_A hilarious piece of political satire that isn't afraid to be serious_**
>_The great danger of lying is not that lies are untruths, and thus unreal, but that they become real in other people's minds._
- Christine Leunens; _Caging Skies_ (2004)
We live in dangerous times. In this era of political regression, racists, xenophobes, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, white separatists, and fascists, once confined to the periphery of civilised society, have wormed their way back into the cultural mainstream, preaching hate and intolerance under the guise of terms such as "nationalism" and "patriotism". Meanwhile, politicians validate such groups by doing precisely nothing to curtail them and refusing to condemn them ("_very fine people on both sides_" and so forth). Far-right political parties have gained worrying footholds in numerous European countries, running on populist platforms of Islamophobia and anti-immigration, playing on peoples' fears of the Other, exploiting the dearth of facts in sociopolitical discourse, and trading in disinformation...
