What can I say here?

This story may be fiction, but maybe it still has many real life implications.

When I watched the first Trump impeachment, I saw a room full of two kinds of people: (1) people making $100,000 a year and (2) people interning to gain experience and later grab a job that pays $100,000 a year. This second group can afford to intern because they get to stay free in their nice family home while they are gaining all this great experience. Many people cannot afford to be an intern.

In my first TDG novel, I introduced Rich Ridell, a long-serving foot soldier in the Republican Party. Rich is a factory worker. Even though he did a lot of volunteering for the party for 25 years, he never got a "high" position in the Party. Such positions were sought after by wealthier and more educated volunteers as a means to get noticed in the Party hierarchy. Rich was never going to get a management position.

Eventually, Rich leaves the Republican Party. But his political experience became an asset to help USA's first TDG.

I don't make Rich's story a big point in my book. But probably in fewer words than I have just used, I told how foot soldiers in social movements can become tools to be used by overly ambitious people.