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  • Furthermore, although a flaming liberal during the war, Heinlein became a rock-ribbed far right conservative immediately afterward. This happened at just the time he changed wives from a liberal woman, Leslyn, to a rock-ribbed far-right conservative woman, Virginia.

    He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.

    • Isaac Asimov

    That you could read The Space Cadet and Starship Troopers and think they have a consistent message is disheartening to say the least.

    His later work was a serious rendition of everything his earlier work mocked.


  • Heinlein’s biggest returning concept is that he is completely inconsistent ideologically and based his opinions on whoever he was married to at the time.

    He took his big ideas early on from HG Wells, and later Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman.

    The man began his career as an anti-war leftist barred from Naval service, and ended it writing fiction about how we’d all be better off if Nuclear Testing were still allowed.

    He praised Rand, said both political parties had moved too far left, and lived his entire life on disability checks provided by tax-payers.

    Heinlein was a turd of a man. His literature is so maleable and devoid of obvious truth that anyone can claim he supports their politcal views.

    Even Asmiov turned against him in the end.