John Fetterman, Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania had a stroke and seems to have become one of the most openminded senators since than. Maybe all our Senators should have strokes. There must be a way to induce them, right?
I used to tell patients apprehensive about receiving ElectroConvulsive Therapy that a crude but surprisingly apt metaphor was rebooting your brain the same way that one reboots a computer. I wouldn't think a stroke would function in the same way, but I wouldn't have thought that inducing a seizure would treat mania and depression either.
I don't think a lot of TIAs would give you the same effect - and I'll bet that's occurred fairly regularly already with no noticeable improvement in the Congress.
So we should start with the oldest first or longest-serving?
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Was it the stroke rewriting his brain or a brush with death causing him to reassess his life and how he wants to live it? If its the latter, we don't need to induce strokes in politicians, just dangle them over a cliff for a few minutes.
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