Whew! That's heavy ER
I think you could very well be right; that's a cunning observation.
And I doubt it's satire.
Thanks for putting it in a different frame of reference for me.
And this, this was perfect:
>"The American right needed the left to be big and malicious or it could not justify its own need to exist.
Eventually, the party in complete and unchallenged power got fat, lazy, corrupt, and then malignant."