The biggest problem with most people seems to be is that they fail to realize that Legion is what one makes of it, there are as many realities to the Legion as there are legionnaires, each with a different story to tell.
Modern society forces its inhabitants to live such a sheltered lives that instead of finding our own realities, we base our opinions on the realities of others because it's convenient. Greens and the other old guys give you their reality, the candidate's job is to find his, as simple as that.