I support Elizabeth Warren because, according to the NYT puff piece, she used to be a Republican.

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It was in the New York Times Magazine a few weeks ago. It's unsurprising in a sense, that she was once a Republican; she was born into the white lower class in Oklahoma.

I am, of course, proud that I have never voted Republican in my life, although once as a kid, I toyed with voting for Jacob Javits in the Senate but didn't, because he was a Republican.

But the point is not about whether I have ever thought that Republican "ideas" - if we can call them that - were worthy of consideration.

The point is that as a young woman, Ms. Warren assumed they were.

But there's this: Elizabeth Warren as an academic researcher began to do research on the premise that people filing for bankruptcies were involved in a kind of credit card scam, living beyond their means and then leaving the banks holding the bag for their high living lifestyle. And in her research she found something she didn't expect; that the majority of bankruptcies involved unexpected medical expenses, lost jobs, other kinds of tragedy.

So she changed her mind. She let go of her hypothesis and engaged the reality she found.

And that's precisely what I want in a President; high intelligence coupled with a flexible mind.

She's traveled a greater distance that I have and I admire this.

I will vote for the Democratic nominee; but I hope it will be Warren, and if not Warren, I hope the person to humiliate that racist sexist piece of crap in the White House will be a woman; and if not a woman, well, I'll take any of the fine candidates we have before us.

But I have surprised myself with this reason for supporting Ms. Warren in the present state. It's something I thought I'd never say.