Heinlein had joined Upton Sinclair's EPIC ("End Poverty in California") Democratic Party organization shortly before Sinclair was defeated for the governorship in the November 1934 election. Heinlein's Wellsian progressivist socialist inclinations easily fit together with Sinclair's EPIC program, and his talents were rapidly recognized by the organization Although having read more I realize that he turned around later, so I take back the remark.