"America is nothing but a rusting hulk taking in water. You, me, we, need to jump ship, start over. Think the union will hold? Another five years at the most, then all we will have is each other. Fourth Ward is building the future now. Here, San Francisco, Chicago. But like anything under construction we remain vulnerable to weaknesses, internal and out. Any rotting structural member could bring the edifice tumbling down; the liar, the cheat, the diseased spar that corrupts. The once friend who now betrays."