Just out of curiosity-did you ever read Heinlein’s Farnham’s Freehold? I first read it in my mid-teens and have read it several times since. It is like some parallel universe version of what goes on now-just picture Al Sharpton as the slutmaster character in the book-Memtok, I think-or Obama as the supposedly benevolent king...
Nope, I never read any Heinlein. Isn’t he the “Starship Troopers” guy?