The audience learns that Zillah is unhappy with the current politics that have emerged in the United States. In his first break, he writes a letter to President Reagan, expressing all his anger towards him. However, he knows that writing letters is useless because the president will never read his complaints. Instead, her hard work will be “…to be sent to the FBI, analyzed, photocopied and burned.” Zillah links President Reagan to the notion of evil. In her opinion, during the conservative years of the 1980s, too many people were content to step aside and let the president do what he wanted. Ronald Reagan, who died in 2004, sought to avoid the AIDS crisis for much of his presidency. When the Reagans remained silent on the issue, the LGBT community was terrified that they wouldn't get the exposure they needed to try to support this horrible disease. Kenneth Bunch, a founding member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, perfectly sums up the concerns of many, “…but they [Ronald and Nancy Reagan] didn't fight against [AIDS stigma]…that kind of homophobia lasted because Ronald and Nancy Reagan made it possible." It would be five years before he said the word “AIDS,” and it would take him another two years to deliver a speech about the disease that killed 650,000 Americans. She rants that because of Hitler there is a standard of evil. “When Hitler came to power, no one really knew what he was going to do. No one took it that seriously,” said Mary Beth Easley, artistic director of the theater department at Brooklyn College. “The whole thing [A Bright Room Called Day] is a call to action,” Although Zillah is paranoid and always nervous, she can have faith that at least she is not in danger, will always be ahead and will be able to find a way