Does he [Titus Costigan] have any allure besides the dynasty thing?
TL;DRCostigan's appeal is his private-sector success and a lifetime around politics through his father, plus a business-forward, freer-capitalism approach they say appeals to people given the strained economy.
Essentially, he has been successful in the private sector, which is something that he is basically trumpeting. He's also been slyly trying to say, hey, I've been watching my dad do this for 10 years. So even though I have no political experience, I understand what it takes to actually be in this position. He's like, I've got a unique viewpoint into it, which is a weird thing. It's a weird needle for him to try to thread. But he is trying to push that. And so I think experience running a multi-system, massive corporation can have some comparisons to government.
And the thing too, bear in mind that Kelos Costigan was the High Secretary before he was Imperator. So for most of Titus's life, he's been around politics. So he's sort of come up around it. He knows the players, he knows the people. He probably gets more of an unfiltered view from his dad about how things work.
I mean, that's what he's selling.
And I think if you look at the current economic state that we talked a little bit about earlier with the UEE and how that's wanting to shift, the cost of government is very high right now and they need more income coming in. You look at the past couple of decades, like the sale of the Stanton system, where businesses are taking a larger role in government and that line is starting to blur more, and Costigan represents that next evolution of business-forward government, getting rid of some of the restrictions that control how businesses act and where, and letting a much more pure version of capitalism take form, which a lot of people think would be good for the UEE.
Yeah, particularly when you're dealing with a strained economy, they want to bring in that business innovation to help refuel things and re-excite things and get them back on the other side.