"Haven’t you been listening?" Harper asked, her disappointment clear. "No, I respect democracy as much as I can. There was no fix, but I used their capacity for analysis to microtarget the voters needed to win. But you’re missing the point. You’ve seen what’s happened to the world in the last ten years, and it’s only getting worse. I wanted to fix the country and didn’t have time to waste. I was a fool though. I thought the big chair would help me find solutions—instead I ran headfirst into our political system’s many limitations. Congress and the opposition were a block to anything I proposed, no matter the cost-benefit analysis. It was just no, no, no for self-serving reasons. Your political cynicism would have found a home with my colleagues, but I refused to succumb and found a way around them."