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Elizabeth Warrens Secret Weapon
Elizabeth Warren might hold the secret to the election, if not the safety and security of the Republic. What is this secret weapon? Her journey from Republican to Democrat.
Wait? What?
Elizabeth Warren began her citizenship as a Republican. I’ve also read (I believe it used to be on her wikipedia page, but no longer) that Elizabeth Warren began looking into bankruptcy law as a straightforward way of proving that people who fell into bankruptcy were just freeloaders merely wanting to game the system or otherwise avoid using their own bootstraps. She got over that rather quickly, apparently, as the weight of evidence to the contrary began to, first, pile up and then to snowball. So it is not just what she did, but how she did it: Her efforts began with same sort of moral dudgeon that Conservatives trade in daily and ended in a wholesale rebuke of that beginning. She has travelled through the cognitive dissonance wormhole and emerged better on the other side.
To bring an end to our present state of polarization either those who are aligned with the Left have to go Right, or those aligned with the Right have to go Left. The former, going from Left to Right, isn’t likely to happen. This is because Liberals already expose themselves to right-wing thinking. The result is not conversion but condemnation: many people on the Left already know what…
