What is the point of arguing here seriously? You --now, I too, so, we-- just add the oxygen of publicity.

One of the most sinister organizations in US history was discredited by satire (see the index of Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point for the story of the KKK being undermined by a cartoonist)

In the interests of deflating the bad odour of this thread, I challenge readers to answer this: of what polity is the 'national musical instrument' a fart cushion?