My First and Last Time in Political Activism

"Every one of these trips [to D.C.] makes it all the more heartbreaking to see how these lives are wasted either being prostituted for some criminal politician's plan to force everyone else to live how he wants....[D.C. has] a population so infantilized and hedonistic, a society so eroded by legislation, disarmed by the police, all while D.C.'s leaders arm the military to kill anyone they want and threaten the world with nuclear war, that you can see in the eyes of its residents how their souls are crushed by the state."