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Um there ain’t no liberal leanings.

Hahahahahahahahaha! Hahahaha!

Oh, wait, you were serious?

Up until the whole New Caprica/Iraq debacle, I thought the new BSG was the most incredible sci-fi show ever and I thought, finally, a TV show I can enjoy which won't be full of mushy-headed left-wing thinking! Boy, was I wrong.

I don't remember exactly which left-wing item came first, but the New Caprica/Iraq parallel, with the Cylons representing the US, was just so blatantly left-wing, it was ridiculous. The suicide bombings didn't even make sense within the context of the show. Why not simply place a bomb with a timer in the location and walk away? There was absolutely no reason they had to commit suicide to accomplish their objective, but the writers wanted to make some social commentary, so they jammed it in there.

However, the thing that really made me sick was something a bit more subtle. See, one thing that made the show such an enjoyable romp was that it was a classic good vs. evil tale. We didn't even have to worry about the morality of it, because the evil ones were just machines, anyway. Then the hippie writers of BSG started inserting more and more of the left-wing navel-gazing where human characters started questioning whether the Cylons really deserved to be destroyed. Maybe they were really just some nice robots who were misunderstood, or maybe it was even our fault that they nearly wiped out the human race.

It started with Odama admitting that he had crossed into the neutral zone during peace time in violation of the treaty. Okay. But what made me actually stop watching the show was when one of the idiot pilots, who became more of a hippie with every episode, decided that he was single-handedly going to stop the humans from wiping out all of the Cylons at once. He killed the diseased Cylons before they could be used to infect the rest of them. Now, if you are a military fighter pilot, who, along with a meager 47,000 people out of some 13 billion that were decimated by the Cylons, is running for his life through the galaxy being relentlessly pursued by machines bent on your extinction, to turn around and say "I just don't think we have the right to arbitrarily exterminate an entire species", when referring to your impending mechanical executioners, then you have drunk far, far too much of the left-wing self-loathing kool-aid. I turned the show off at that point and have only recently checked back in only to see how they are going to end the show.

The left-wing mindset has absolutely dominated this show ever since the 2nd season or so.

Except of course NO ONE associated with the show said New Caprica paralleled with Iraq. In fact they said it paralleled with occupied France. So it was Cylons = US it was Cylons = Nazis.

The question wasn’t whether the Cylons deserved to be destroyed. The question was the same one that got asked in the mini-series: do the humans deserve to live? When they had the opportunity to kill all the Cylons the variant was does anybody that commits genocide deserve to live. The moral problem there was that if they did to the Cylons what the Cylons did to them then they stop being the good guys. As any American military strategist can tell you, wearing a white hat comes at a certain strategic price, there are some things the good guys just don’t get to do, and really high up on that list is genocide.