Speaking just a few months after the crackdown, the retired politician answered Anderson's question by reciting a poem by Li Shangyin, a ninth-century imagist who witnessed the bloody fracturing of the Tang Dynasty.
Erik completely changes his tone of voice and starts talking like a politician, answering, "Other people can't decide your sexuality".
President Obama has shown himself to be a master media operative, a superior orator, but in the end just another politician answering to not the call of history but corporate interests.
Last month, during a CNN primary debate in Flint, Michigan, Democratic presidential candidate fielded a question from the audience that people in his position don't get asked very often: "Do you believe that God is relevant?" It's pretty hard to imagine any American politician answering that question with a "no," and Sanders didn't surprise.
True, politicians answer to local voters.
Politicians answer to all of us, and have a scarier kind of power, easily abused.
These people also attend functions and fundraisers at night (which are easy to locate), and these events should be disrupted, inside and out, until these politicians answer to the recklessness in which they are engaged.
How would any of our newly elected politicians answer the question, "What would you do for the lives and welfare of companion animals?" I doubt that any of them would argue for the status quo -- not if there were suddenly a national focus on the millions of animals abandoned every year, mostly for preventable reasons, and put to death or re-homed at great emotional and financial expense.
I asked him if the politicians' answers had satisfied him.
