# Give Me an Example of Conservative Political Fiction

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**Created:** [January 7, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-an-example-of-conservative-political-fiction/646397 "2013-01-07T21:21:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-an-example-of-conservative-political-fiction/646397/81 "2013-01-11T07:48:20Z")

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The _Back to the Future_ movies. No matter how many decades in the past or the future you go, Hill Valley was and will be much the same, and most trips through time are to maintain that status quo.

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> [@PatriotGrrrl](#):
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> [Lipidleggin’](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipidleggin%27)

F. Paul Wilson also wrote the Repairman Jack series, which has a libertarian bent.

> [@Zebra](#):
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> Red Dawn
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> I’ve heard Babylon 5 described as a conservative Star Trek. (by one of the actors, the security guy)

Jerry Doyle, probably the security guy you’re talking about, is also a radio talking head these days.

> **[Jerry Doyle | Radio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Doyle#Radio)**
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> Weekdays from 3 p.m.–6 p.m. PT (6 –9  ET), the Jerry Doyle Show aired on the Talk Radio Network, although the show aired at different times in different markets. It was the sixth most popular talk radio show in the country, with an average of 3.75 million listeners on a weekly basis by early 2012.
> Doyle was announced as the replacement program for The Savage Nation in Talk Radio Network's lineup in October 2012. The Savage Nation, at the time the third most-listened-to radio talk show in the Uni...

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Are you sure you’re thinking of the same book? The state in _1984_ is quite explicitly dedicated to _unfairness_, and society is by design rigidly stratified.

Perhaps I should have said that the society is ostensibly dedicated to fairness, or at least equality. The opulence of the living standards of Party members doesn’t seem to be well understood by the proles, nor of just how much better off the Inner Party lives is understood by Outer Party members.

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