Task: Categorize the sentence into one of five ordinal classes, each representing a different intensity level of the writer's mental state, ranging from very positive to very negative sentiments. 2: very positive, 1: positive, 0: neutral, -1: negative, -2: very negative.
Sentence: using his audience as a figurative port-of-call , dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their dock for unloading , before he continues his longer journey still ahead .
Intensity class: 