Well, its a story of one man working within constraints of a certain political system. Irrespective of your overall judgement of that system, the story conveys information about the direction this man claims to want to take inside the system. It's not a fluff piece in that sense.

Those down voting: it's valuable information to know what people like that guy are thinking. You can put as much or as little weight on that information as you want but the optimal weight is unlikely to be zero