The article I read is a satire on the judgment that citizens have. Usually there's a judgment about how elected officials run their jobs not elected officials judging the decisions made by citizens. This article states real people such as President Obama stating false things about the competence of regular voting citizens. They are making law abiding regular voting citizens to be bad and the elected officials to be the victims for being wrongly elected by those citizens. This article makes fun of how U.S. citizens vote for specific officials such as the president and then complain about the decisions that those officials make after being elected. U.S. citizens are being made fun of for making those decisions in the first place.
I chose this article because I thought it was funny and it assesses the problems within our society. How people make "well-informed" decisions when they go to cast their votes only to realize after the person is elected that they made a mistake and then they start complaining about it. I thought it was well written and ironic because the people who made the votes are the people being made fun of which is different from the usual SNL sketches that make fun of the elected officials instead. It's become a social norm to poke fun of elected officials such as the different presidents we've had over the years. No one makes fun of the people who voted for those elected officials and their complaints about specific decisions made by those elected officials such as Obama's healthcare reform. I enjoyed this article because of the irony and how it's different from most satires.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-majority-of-government-doesnt-trust-citizen,17459/
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