Robert Heinlein on today's GOP

[edhopper]

The right likes to embrace him because of some of the "get off my lawn" things he said. But he was a Roosevelt Democrat and had no love of Holy Rollers.

From 1950!

Throw in a Depression for good measure, promise a material heaven here on earth, add a dash of anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, anti-Negrosim, and a good large dose of anti-“furriners” in general and anti-intellectuals here at home, and the result might be something quite frightening — particularly when one recalls that our voting system is such that a minority distributed as pluralities in enough states can constitute a working majority in Washington.”

[Crunchy Frog]

1. I thought he was a libertarian.

[edhopper]

2. Of the Bill Mahr type

Not the loony Rand Paul type.

[Martin68]

10. A "Libertarian" who believed women should be subservient men - although he also

paid lip service to women's equality. Go figure!

[krispos42]

8. I think he became one later on

I read of bunch of his stuff in middle school. "Starman Jones", "Have Space Suit, Will Travel", "The Rolling Stones" (predating the music group), a bunch of others. It was written for teens. I didn't really get into his later adult stuff.

[lunatica]

3. He"s the author that made me a sci-fi fan for life.

Have Space Suit Will Travel was my first scifi book. It hooked me for life. I was 17.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. +1

[edhopper]

5. It was Stanger in a Strange Land.

and Methusala's Children for me.

[Dial H For Hero]

7. Tunnel in the Sky and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Fantastic stuff.

[Martin68]

11. Me, too, Lanatica, but as I grew older I started to notice some weird right

wing and militaristic stuff in books like Farnham's Freehold and Starship Troopers.

[rickyhall]

6. Robert Heinlein was Robert Heinlein. There was no other like him.

Asimov, Bradbury, Heinlein perfected Science Fiction. IMO.

[First Speaker]

9. This was from the intro to "Revolt in 2100"...

...which is, I think, a more accurate picture of the future than "Handmaid's Tale". And it was written in 1940!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Thank you for posting this