[curiosity]

They knew exactly what they were doing. To pull off satire like that you have to pay attention to tone.

Why would a radical lefitst like Norman Lear want to satirize and ridicule his own political philosophy?

[Borges]

I couldn’t care less about Lear. As I’ve said he did not write anything after the pilot. It was written by seasoned comedy writers. Did you watch the show? The liberal characters were satirized as well.