Chapter 2353
Conner held the phone, deep in thought.
Conner could be considered a representative figure among the Federation's senior politicians. Or rather, politicians at his level often had essentially the same core.
They had all received excellent educations and had attended famous private academies since middle school.
Their classmates came from political families, wealthy households, or the ranks of society's elite.
Not one of them was useless, whether boy or girl.
By the time they entered university and enrolled in the Saint and Harmony Society Colleges, the people they met were even more likely to be among the ten percent minority of society.
They would have more than one outstanding private tutor to teach them things they could not learn at school.
Perhaps from their middle-school years onward, they had already begun attending various political activities with their fathers or relatives.
This laid a solid political foundation for them from adolescence onward.
While ordinary politicians could barely string words together in front of voters, these people could already converse fluently with dignitaries and celebrities.
They were cultured, well-grounded, and capable.
They were elites cultivated by civilized society, elites who embodied Federation values! But they also had certain shortcomings. For some matters, their attitudes were not as decisive—or as... ruthless—as those of the older generation.
As far as Conner was concerned, if the Conservative Party Candidate had not truly affected his chances of winning, he would not have been willing to do things that violated the law or morality.
Even if he did not do them personally, he did not want such things to happen.
Although he was an elite, he also possessed things that ordinary people possessed.
He wanted to be pure, even though he could not achieve it. That was still what he hoped for.
Earlier, he had