I think his character shows how dangerous it is to speak out and try to act as an agent for change.

There's really nothing wrong with what I do. I act. I create a character. And I bring an awful lot of people an awful lot of joy.

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

Americans, whether armed or not, were still looking everywhere but at social class when parsing the texture of their lives. It wasn’t so much that stressed-out blue-collar folks were clinging bitterly to their guns and religion, as Barack Obama had posited while running for president. It was more that guns and religion were keeping them from feeling bitter about the indignities inflicted on the middle class.

We can't fix everything, but there's a lot that can be done to make it better.

In the U.S. presently there are only a few places where citizens can act in this fashion and have a say in our nation.