Satire is dead

Or at least pointless.

I used to listen or watch it all: The Now Show, The Bugle, Have I Got News For You, The News Show, as well as read Private Eye, watch clips from the Today Show. And you know what? Even though we all knew what was being parodied was ripe for it, and that the lies peddled by those in power, or those that sought it was right to be called out at satirised.. And none of it made any difference.

None at all.

Britain is bad enough with T May as PM, Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary, David Davis as Brexit Secretary, and they are making a dog's dinner of things. And a bumbling pointless old bloke as leader of the opposition, and yet, things get worse. Satire would only make things worse, I mean, how can you satirise the above?

And then over the pond Trump is 45. He is all bluster, knows nothing about anything, has appointed billionaires to cabinet, is rolling back health care and social programs, just like he said he would. All ripe for parody, and yet, satire has been on his case for two years or more, and it made no difference. Like having all facts and common sense on the other side, Brexit and Trump won.

What hope is there when truth and reason n longer matter, no do those who lie when they are caught out lying, can call their lies "alternative facts", and we just blink.

I don't watch or read catire any more, satire could not take the pain and helplessness away that I feel right now. But satire and facts are all we have, because the Brexiteers and Trumps are more passionate about their lies, their made up massacres, sunlit uplands and Brexit fairy that we could ever be about facts, reason or social justice.