Councilor

Mayor Landon... no, he should now be called Councilor Landon.

Through a series of political exchanges, Mr. Landon had finally achieved his wish and become a Congressman.

This was not an easy change to evaluate, and it was hard to say whether the outcome was truly appropriate.

From the perspective of sheer control over power, the mayor's authority was obviously far greater than that of a Congressman.

It might sound somewhat impractical, but this was precisely the reality of the Federal political scene.

A mayor held most of the power within a city.

He could order the Police Chief to act according to his wishes, demand that the militia follow his command when necessary, and determine the direction of a city's development and urban planning for hundreds of thousands of people.

The fates of hundreds of thousands of people—their joys, sorrows, anger, and happiness—were all firmly held in the mayor's hands.

When he wanted people to be unhappy, everyone had to wear a mournful expression.

When he wanted people to be happy, everyone would laugh loudly to indulge his wishes.

What did Congressmen have? Nothing. Aside from voting in Congress, their work mostly involved dealing with one committee after another. Yet even within those committees, no single Congressman had the final say.

Many Congressmen voted, and then they decided whose wishes to follow.

They could formulate laws and policies, influencing the political landscape of the entire country and even the international community, but that influence was expressed in the form of the "whole."

Once the lens was narrowed to the individual, their actual power was not so great.

Not only were people not necessarily respectful toward them, but sometimes enraged citizens would even storm up to them, point at their noses, and curse them for passing proposals that seemed utterly