Speaking of cruel and humorless jokes, here's one perpetuated by pretty much the same rich powerful.

This time, it's on the American people directly.

The cruel ongoing April Fool's Joke, perpetuated on pretty much all non-white people, is the illusion of democracy the American rich and powerful perpetuate on everyone via crapitalism.

Whether it's called white supremacy, Manifest Destiny, American Exceptionalism/Innocence, it doesn't really matter.

https://www.blackagendareport.com/empire-has-no-clothes-us-imperialism-and-hubris-white-supremacy-ideology