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This is what passed for satire exactly 20 years ago
(hexbear.net)
A justification for American militarism from the South Park guys in the form of "dicks have to fuck assholes" or whatever.
Racism towards Middle Easterners and Kim Jong-il too, because why not?
The real problem is that some Hollywood actors said the Iraq War was bad.
See, I don't understand something. It is satire but it also is just genuinely what Americans believe. Is that because Americans are too illiterate to process satire, or is it because America is so devoid of morality that participating in a self-deprecational circlejerk of "satire" provides American libs and chuds with the moral license to keep supporting atrocities?
I think the same underlying phenomenon applies to the way a huge majority of Americans distrust their government, but they still functionally put their trust in government in every conceivable ways. A tax strike in the US is unthinkable. Voter turnouts are low, but the majority of elegible voters still vote, despite saying they don't trust their government. Electoral candidates with negative approval win elections. Nobody believes in anything, it's a walking zombie of a country.
I don't think it's "right wing" (it is bourgeois, but not right wing in the cultural sense). I think it's just as prevalent in all sectors of hegemonic culture: Americans are superior people because they are free thinkers who know better than to trust their government. From the moment the nation came to be that's more or less been a constant. But it's wholly contradictory to the absolute subservience to empire that the American state demands (Actually Existing Liberalism).