Editing Starship Troopers (section)

====Heinlein fans====
Heinlein fans tend to be very, ''very'' protective of ''Starship Troopers'', and very defensive about the supposed virtues of the Federation, to the point of inventing things that aren't in the text - which doesn't go into much detail on the inner structure of how the Federation government actually works. Granted, this is in service of of one of the most important writers in the history of science fiction's most seminal works, but even so it can be a bit tardy.

There is something to be said for drawing equivalences between the way the vote works in ''Starship Troopers'' and the way it worked in the classical democracies and republics of the ancient world - and the Federation is not a place that discriminates on the basis of race, class, or sex, virtually all of which are anathema to modern-day fascist movements even if they aren't necessarily requirements for a belief system to be fascist. 

Ultimately, you have people who didn't get the movie, people who thought the movie was great, people who said that the book was better, and people who didn't get the movie, thought it was great and made a 'sequel' with... flashlights, and all of these things are backed up by the intensely political nature of both the books and the parody. At least the third one (''Starship Troopers 3: Marauder'') featured real powered armor, for all of like five minutes.

So yeah... '''''Lotta''''' skub there.