To anyone who thinks GRRM is "waking up" or becoming based, or realizing his mistakes, no.

He is a dyed in the wool, rabid leftist. Always has been. Always will be.

What's happened is what happens to everyone who lives too long--the meaning of "left" has moved well beyond where he is.

His bogey men were the religious conservatives. The people who thought D&D was Satanic, who don't believe in evolution, who banned comic books, who were anti rock music, etc. Well guess what, those people don't exist any more (or they exist in such tiny numbers they're utterly irrelevant).

The enemies of free speech today and freedom of expression TODAY are almost uniformly on the left.

Good for GRRM to realize this and call it out, but no, he's not centrist, and this is not a greater awakening. It's totally consistent with where's he always been.

To anyone who thinks GRRM is "waking up" or becoming based, or realizing his mistakes, no.

He is a dyed in the wool, rabid leftist. Always has been. Always will be.

What's happened is what happens to everyone who lives too long--the meaning of "left" has moved well beyond where he is.

His bogey man were the religious conservatives. The people who thought D&D was Satanic, who don't believe in evolution, who banned comic books, who were anti rock music, etc. Well guess what, those people don't exist any more (or they exist in such tiny numbers they're utterly irrelevant).

The enemies of free speech today and freedom of expression TODAY are almost uniformly on the left.

Good for GRRM to realize this and call it out, but no, he's not centrist, and this is not a greater awakening. It's totally consistent with where's he always been.