Perhaps I don't know Dan Simmons like I ought to - I've never been fond of his fiction, though I have read some of his books - but I didn't expect something like this from him. It's a pretty hard short-story-cum-essay, with a point-of-view straight out of the little green footballs Jacksonian end of the political field. Is this another symptom of what Jim Geraghty called the Tipping Point?

I don't know, tell me Simmons is actually a centre-right type like Orson Scott Card or a libertarian-right type like Steve Stirling.

H/T Vodkapundit.