[Rummyfan]

Take, for example, the crucial issue of Heinlein’s political evolution. Heinlein went from being a left-wing New Dealer in the 1930s and 1940s to flirting with the John Birch Society in the late 1950s and supporting Barry Goldwater in the 1960s—and yet, he insisted that his politics were unwaveringly consistent. “From my point of view what has happed is not that I have moved to the right; it seems to me that both parties have moved steadily to the left,” Heinlein wrote his brother in 1964.

It's a very common progression as one ages.

[eddie willers]

It's a very common progression as one ages.

So true. He said it, Reagan said it, and I said it.

There's probably something wrong with people who are rigid and can't see or say it.