home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky rec.arts.sf.misc:3585 talk.politics.misc:65713
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc,talk.politics.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!news.dtc.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hpuerca.atl.hp.com!mhr
- From: mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser)
- Subject: Re: SF fans show libertarian inclination
- Message-ID: <C034Lw.Bvs@hpuerca.atl.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:27:32 GMT
- References: <C02uyJ.F7n@world.std.com>
- Organization: a stone mountain of Kudzu
- Keywords: Libertarian,science-fiction
- Lines: 32
-
- In <C02uyJ.F7n@world.std.com> rjk@world.std.com (robert j kolker) writes:
-
- >Is it my imagination or is it true? Going through the postings in the
- >rec.arts.sf.*, rec.arts.startrek groups I havew discerned a Libertarian
- >bias or inclination in the posting where some kind of political/social
- >opinion is expressed.
-
- >Also among persons of my acquaintance in science fiction interest groups I
- >have seen the same thing.
-
- >I am imposing my own admittedly libertarian bias to my observation, or
- >could it be true.
-
- >I would like your opinions for a sanity check.
-
-
- I feel there are more Libertarian Party members in fandom than in the
- mundane world -- but this may be due to the fact that the person who
- was vice chair of our convention (while I was chairman), and who is
- now the chariman, was one of the Libertarian Party's electors in the
- state of Georgia.
-
- It was an odd feeling on election day -- there's one of my closest
- friends, listed on the Presidential ballot...
-
- --
- =======================================================================
- Mike Reaser, Hewlett-Packard N. Amer. Response Center - Atlanta
- Internet: mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com
- NBCS: B5 f t w g+ k s I barely speak for myself, so
- #include <standard.disclaimer> don't make me speak for HP
- =======================================================================
-