Today I started to read Neil Smith’s Forge of the Elders<\/i>, and had to chuckle at the names of the spaceships of the American Soviet Socialist Republic: Dole, McCain, Hatch<\/i> (“three misunderstood and martyred socialist statesmen who had made America what it was today”). When this part was first published (as Contact and Commune<\/i>), they were Democrats: Metzenbaum, Kennedy, [?]<\/i>.<\/p>\n
A few years ago, Neil started saying that he preferred openly-socialist Democrats to crypto-socialist Republicans. I guess this renaming is part of that policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today I started to read Neil Smith’s Forge of the Elders, and had to chuckle at the names of the spaceships of the American Soviet Socialist Republic: Dole, McCain, Hatch (“three misunderstood and martyred socialist statesmen who had made America … Continue reading