The 79-year old comic channels the satirist Jonathan Swift and offers a dozen “modest proposals” for the manifesto of the socialist organization

“In our Socialist America, everyone will be so fulfilled spiritually and financially that the police department will be dramatically reduced to where an officer’s only job will be to adjudicate domestic disputes.”

“Toward that end, stands will be set up at local farmers markets, where they will work to resolve marital issues in a folksy, farm-to-table manner,” he writes.

He rapidly progresses to more outlandish ideas, including national paid leave for the death of pets, mandating that employers provide cots for two siestas a day, allowing humans who identify as animals to “relieve themselves” wherever they wish and reparations that would enlist white people to serve as slaves for Black families.

Jews, he writes, will no longer be allowed to call themselves “the Chosen people” and will be known instead as “the Bagel People.”

“We strongly believe in a two-state solution, To this end, we propose that Palestinians should be given all the land currently occupied by Israel and that Israel should be given Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific, where the weather is beautiful and grapefruits are aplenty. We think the Bagel People will be very happy there.”

a media post described the essay as “Larry David has a boomer crashout over Israel.”

Zack Wall, 35, of Columbus, Ohio, replied online “Someone take the phone from gramps,”

Many posts focused on Mr. David’s age while criticizing his views, and others described him as unfunny and racist.

“Maybe I’m just too young, but who is Larry David and why would any person alive care what he has to say?” said a user

New York Times