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Originally Posted by acemccloudxx
I also find that many of the Honorverse stories contain a rather severe conservative bent (liberals are frequently portrayed as stupid and incompetent).
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It's an error to try to assign the meanings we use for terms like conservative and liberal to SF set in the future that uses the terms. I don't personally see a lot of similarity between Countess New Kiev's ideas and what I think of as current liberal politics. The liberals I know are a bit more grounded in reality.
Though in some respects, the Honorverse series is firmly in the SF tradition of the cautionary tale. The Republic of Haven prior to the war with Manticore can be seen as a logical end product of some liberal policies.
(That said, Weber's personal politics probably
are the conservative variety. It literally goes with the territory, given where he lives.)
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Dennis