"No, it won't," Molly agrees, a little more serious than she'd been a moment ago, but no less interested. It's something she's been painfully aware of for a long time, after all, being part of that system herself, and pretty sure she can count on one hand the number of other people who work in that building who came from places other than Darrow. None of them hold any higher office. She wouldn't want to, that hasn't been the career for her since she was a little kid who didn't really know any better, but that's not the point. There should still be someone speaking for the people like them. Maybe there haven't been any serious problems yet, but that doesn't mean there won't be, and it won't do anyone much good if they wait until there are to do something about it.
She wonders sometimes if it's naïve to hope that someone in her position might be able to affect real change. The people who would have some say over that sort of thing, they know her, they like her, but trying to convince them of a structural change like that is easier said than done. If nothing else, there's no way it's something she can do on her own. She almost misses the way things were when the city was all but empty, the few of them who'd arrived here building something from the ground up. That's what she'd signed on for originally, the thing that made her get back into politics in the first place. She loves this, too, flawed system or not, but that was a hell of an opportunity.
If nothing else, it helps to hear someone else saying all of this. It feels pretty damn good, actually, though she thinks a little of that has to do with it coming from him, too, and not just the words themselves.
"You know, I think a lot of people, they show up here, and either it's too overwhelming or things seem okay so they don't stop to think about it. And the ones who've been here, well, what they have works for them, so they don't stop to change what they already have in place. But there's no way it's sustainable, and it's certainly not fucking right."
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She wonders sometimes if it's naïve to hope that someone in her position might be able to affect real change. The people who would have some say over that sort of thing, they know her, they like her, but trying to convince them of a structural change like that is easier said than done. If nothing else, there's no way it's something she can do on her own. She almost misses the way things were when the city was all but empty, the few of them who'd arrived here building something from the ground up. That's what she'd signed on for originally, the thing that made her get back into politics in the first place. She loves this, too, flawed system or not, but that was a hell of an opportunity.
If nothing else, it helps to hear someone else saying all of this. It feels pretty damn good, actually, though she thinks a little of that has to do with it coming from him, too, and not just the words themselves.
"You know, I think a lot of people, they show up here, and either it's too overwhelming or things seem okay so they don't stop to think about it. And the ones who've been here, well, what they have works for them, so they don't stop to change what they already have in place. But there's no way it's sustainable, and it's certainly not fucking right."