``Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.''
Then released in several versions as a spoken word song by the Australian director Baz Luhrmann.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen
It reached peak parody when further mangled and released by John Safran as Not The Sunscreen Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YwqFz14xY4
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/10/21/d...
The fact that enough people vote for these characters has me more than a little bit worried. Democracy is super fragile and to wave away the observable fact that in the past things were quite different by quoting some random text seems to be a bit too glib and easy.