[ See, it's easy to just say something like: "Well if you don't care about it, don't get involved, then" which is what he thinks about saying. The specter of his mother's long years of outreach, protesting, civics, and general involvement stilled his tongue, because he knew if he said something like that, he'd probably be doing her memory wrong.

So his lips only thin, slightly, and he shook his head. ]

I mean, I'd like to know? If I'm stuck here, it seems pretty important to know about this kind of thing, and learn a little more about it?

Shit, if we're going to be involved in this place -- which I assume we would -- then we'll probably want to know the type of person we're going to be working with. [ Another long pause, and this time he rubbed at his chin, considering. ]

Let's say there isn't a process, and someone stages a coup, right? What does that say about these people we'll be working with? Are they power hungry, and just trying to feed us a line? Should we follow them?

I mean, politics like this is everything.

[ Lord. He's all about this stuff. ]