Ok so someone who's opinion I give a shit about explain to me how this is a bad thing.
1) Hugo nominees are chosen by people who go to Worldcon.
2) "Sad Puppies" and "Rabid Puppies" are sad (and foaming from the mouth?) because most of the nominees are liberals who have written stories that these puppies don't like.
2) Puppies do not believe that anyone can
really like liberal bullshit books and therefore assume that there must be a commie conspiracy where the liberals have turned "what books do you like the most" contest into a political war on the right wingers, mom and heterosexuals.
3) Puppies set up specific lists from which all their members must choose certain books in order to ensure that the "right" books will win the Hugo awards.
4) Because the communist hippy atheists are not in fact involved in a massive conspiracy and only vote books based on what they like the Puppies easily make their lists pass.
5) Most people actually don't like the books on the Puppy lists and therefore they vote for "No award" to be given rather than giving all the awards to books chosen on political and ideological basis rather than their own merit.
6) Puppies again believe that this must be an evil conspiracy because there is no way that anyone could dislike "proper American-Christian fiction."
...Now all we need is that someone about whom Ironbite gives a shit will make the same explanation.