.. , I... , prefer my own sex.”There was silence in the car. Laurie looked to Brian for some response and she could see he was thinking of what to s...y. She let the silence continue.Brian finally said, “I thank you for telling me that. I know it was a hard thing for you to say. I sensed that something was on your mind throughout dinner. To be honest with you, I am disappointed hearing what you just said. I was hoping you would have invited me in to your condo and I could have my wicked ways with. Besides, I was a hated horse killer, someone who was at the very bottom of the Comanche social calendar. The result was that I was attacked from both sides and had to flail away with little plan in order just to stay alive. I don't know how many I killed nor how many bones I broke in the process of the fight.Later, I was credited with a total of 16 killed, when they included those lost in the initial charge. Anyway, Dove and Sunny delighted in tying 16 more scalps to my coup stick. Now I could. Why should Chicago rule over the whole state?”“Because of the principle of one-person, one vote!”“Something that was explicitly and soundly rejected by the Founders. Look, you like pure representative democracy and believe in it. I don’t. The Founders crafted a system that was purposefully anti-democratic. And they gave you a way to change it. But court rulings aren’t the way. Amend the Constitution.”“But we can’t because it allows a small number of people to prevent that!” he objected.“Yes,. "Even at the time questions were raised. The system seemed just a little too pat on how and where children were sent. And it was all compounded when robots were added to mixture, as they often seemed to be assigned only to positions vacated by other robots, which did nothing to aid in their own development. But all such inquiries were stonewalled, and public investigations quickly shut down. And in the earliest days, some involved parents were even jailed for even questioning placements. Soon.