Satire can, without doubt, be the most effective style of writing for drawing attention to political problems that are, objectively, absurd. Of course, the problem is in treading that fine line between taking your satire a step too far, thus allowing your true subject to distance himself* from it, and making it too subtle, thus risking your audience missing the point altogether. It’s not an easy balance to find; for an example of this difficulty, one need look no further than the most famous satire in history, Swift’s essay “A Modest Proposal”, following the publication of which many a rich plutocrat expressed unironic moral outrage at the very idea of eating babies.