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.
In that case we go with longest-serving.
As a counterpoint, Fetterman to me sounds a lot of the themes that Ruy Teixeira has been expounding for the last eight years. We are so used to the Woke Democrat positions exemplified by Harris and Biden, and dimly echoed by the GOPe, that Fetterman doesn't even sound like a Democrat anymore. Trump's positions and proposals aren't that far off Dick Gephardt's back in the 1990s. I think there was a lot of extrapolation from insufficient information about him.
Yeah, I’ve grown to appreciate Fetterman, especially on Israel. He has that Pennsylvania orneriness in tweaking the anti-Israel crowd that is a delight to watch.
AVI and I have discussed that Trump is basically a 1970s New York Democrat at heart. The Democrats moved away from him, so he moved towards Republicans. I think that’s bad for both parties, but I don’t agree with the 17th Amendment so I’m a bit of an outlier in my views anyway.
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