Eh...

I didn't hand out any ones, either (I don't use the rating system,) but as to the political question... Well, for starters, it might be *intended* as obvious farce, but the problem with this stuff is that you *can't* plausibly satirize it; the episodes of this that I read, before leaving off, were really basically indistinguishable from what a lot of angry college students on the Internet *actually think all Republicans are like.* So it's really not that far-fetched to think that someone might be taking it seriously. Add to that the fact that, even if in jest, it's perpetuating a really very aggravating dichotomy (rabid moral policemen and avaricious warmongering plutocrats versus mealy-mouthed quasi-socialist bureacrats who never met a social deviancy they didn't like, and no, those are your *only* two options, because third-party candidates hardly ever even crack single digits in the polls) that's been running amok in real-world American politics for the last few decades and causing a lot of struggle and disillusionment with the entire process. Farce or no, for a lot of people this subject just *isn't funny,* because it reminds them too strongly of something that's deeply frustrating about a really important issue for which there increasingly seem to be no *good* options for a lot of folks. Lots of people are just plain sick of it all. For me, that's why I've just been ignoring it - but I wouldn't be surprised if someone else feels more strongly.