I don’t really care much about the Sad Puppies’ political leanings.

Neofascism is not all that neo- anymore. It’s a permanent strain of and stain on world politics in the modern era.

I don’t care about bloc voting either. Any voting system is susceptible to it; most such as our American party system absolutely depend on it. The Hugo voting numbers are always so small that it has almost certainly been gamed in the past.

No, what I care about is that the works nominated by the Puppies are bad. Bad sf. Boring works. Substandard bordering on abysmal.

I’ve read some works in the past where the politics are disagreeable or disgusting but that I still liked. I know many people can’t separate the two but I can easily. So I do.

However, none of the Sad Puppies’ creative output that I’ve examined so far would’ve gotten printed in the average middling high school newspaper.

They are all terrible. And that’s really what bothers me the most.