Rant: Sad Puppies vs. Anti-Puppies, as the Kilostreisands Pile Up
Yes, I've been scarce in recent weeks, but bear with me: I'm off doing something difficult but important, which I'll tell you about later.
Although it's been going on now for three years, I hadn't ever ( Read more... )
It may not matter. What's actually happening is that fandom is forking, like it forked when the media guys left and started having conventions that 100,000 people attended. The media guys won, by a factor of 10. I'm starting to hear about SP meetups, and there will eventually be SP conventions, though I'll bet it's under another name. Meanwhile, traditional fandom gets whiter, sicker, and deader. I'd worry about that more than anything else. The Puppies trend young. Why I don't yet understand, but they do.
US politics is cyclical, not linear. There is no "over time." Conservatives take a bath when voters get tired of them, and liberals take a bath when the voters who elected them get sick of them in turn. Handing political tribalists their own asses on a platter with Bearnaise sauce is our national sport, one that I myself greatly enjoy. Political independents now dominate the electorate. Political parties are a sad, impotent shadow of what they once were, and these days border on self-parody. Something is winning. It isn't the Republicans, and it certainly isn't the Democrats.
Americans are fundamentally good-hearted libertarians, and gay rights is a libertarian issue, not a left/right issue. A clear majority of my Republican friends support marriage equality. The ratchet is toward freedom, not toward any single ideology.
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