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by pmontra 1315 days ago
They can turn to satire. There is an endless stream of public figures unwillingly creating scripts for them.
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"Satire died when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize" - Tom Lehrer
Yes, but satire is not so effective when everything is satire-able, and people get along fine with everything turned so.

Satire needs a point of sanity and order to stand on (and refer to as the way things should be, versus the bad version it mocks).