[ SECRET POST #4915 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4915 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt - really. Really? Because the literal first political decision the time-travellers make, even before they have an election, is "we will take in refugees and help them to the best of our abilities, regardless of the drain on our resources".
The loudmouthed out-of-town businessman who says otherwise is depicted as a buffoon.

Now, I know that lots of conservatives consume media that is enthusiastically anti-consetvative and remain blissfully oblivious to the message (just look at the numbskulls complaining about Rage Against the Machine getting "political"), but it's rather less common for them to make the stuff!
Oh, and when I say "socialist", I don't mean "thinks healthcare is good", I mean "actual employee of the Socialist Workers Party".

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not commenting on Flint's politics, I don't know them. I'm just talking about the book and how it's capable of being read.

I remember thinking at the time, although I haven't reread the book in years, that a lot of the progressive stuff that is present in the book - like the refugee thing and the racial diversity stuff - comes across as sort of... "one of the good ones" type of attitude. Thinking back on it now, I think possibly that it's just because Flint has a relatively narrow range of character types that he portrays and likes and likes writing about, so people all fall into the same general categories regardless of whether they're 17th-century German peasants or modern West Virginians. Someone could be generally quite racist and also think that the self-made combat veteran black doctor is an exception.

So I think Flint's view of his characters - whatever its source - is compatible with the kind of military history conservatism of the genre as a whole, even if Flint himself does not hold conservative views. Which, I don't really have a point here, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with that. I think it's interesting. I do think the characters can come across as very broad and almost cartoonish at times. But it's kind of a cheesy book in general so it sort of has the defects of its virtues, or whatever.