Immodest proposals

Yes, Swift's satire is disgusting. Yet I find the disgust it arouses oddly cleansing, if you know what I mean. He doesn't mince words; his satire evinces his overwhelming disgust with an unjust world. His euphemisms are so plainly euphemistic that we see right through them, in a way that is so much more difficult with a lot of contemporary political discourse (which traffics in what George Orwell would have called "doublespeak"). To be honest, I am far more disgusted every day when I read the newspapers, which overflow with the soothingly packaged but often merely empty words of our leaders and public figures.