Yeah, I dunno how I'd have managed it long-term. There's so much... dishonesty, I guess. A bunch of overdressed assholes fake-smiling at each other and pretending like they're able to agree on anything.

[He rolls his eyes. The council horror stories over the years really made him a political cynic, huh.

Belatedly, he adds,] Sorry, Dad.

[He wasn't an overdressed asshole most of the time.]