will has been in this town 2 damn long to pay attention to anything beyond surviving another day. when they get to chap2 and things (possibly?) settle down and they aren't dying every five minutes, his excuse is going to be "i'm 14 and would like to maybe get to be 14 soooooo as long as you guys aren't like that reagan guy, he sucks." then again, he's also very much inclined to believe the best of people, so if a friendly neighborhood imperialist is like "hey, i should be a leader" will is gonna be like "cool you were nice to me two (2) times, that sounds good".

bella on the other hand is old enough to vote and is panicked by the idea of the pressure of civic duty. she's also a very lowkey "fuck the man" type, so she'll be veeeeerrryyy wary of everyone wanting power.

marshmallow the demon horse should really be president, thank u for coming 2 my ted talk.