This is why I quit discussing politics online for /years/.
I consider myself a libertarian. VERY socially liberal, but fiscally conservative. (Don't get me started, LOL!)
That neocon view scares the mud out of me, precisely because it's not "my rights start where your rights stop, and vice versa." It's entirely about "THIS way is the only acceptable way."
Not only no, but get me OUT of there! It's too much like what's going on right now!
Yet the thing that makes the 'verse readable, even /eagerly/ anticipated, is that the characters aren't just going along with it. They're fighting in subtle, and often very long-term ways.
I want to laud that action in fiction, because we don't see much of it to laud in real life right now.
Re: Breathtaking
I consider myself a libertarian. VERY socially liberal, but fiscally conservative. (Don't get me started, LOL!)
That neocon view scares the mud out of me, precisely because it's not "my rights start where your rights stop, and vice versa." It's entirely about "THIS way is the only acceptable way."
Not only no, but get me OUT of there! It's too much like what's going on right now!
Yet the thing that makes the 'verse readable, even /eagerly/ anticipated, is that the characters aren't just going along with it. They're fighting in subtle, and often very long-term ways.
I want to laud that action in fiction, because we don't see much of it to laud in real life right now.