Republican strategist Lindy Li on Friday told the 42 million Americans expected to lose food assistance starting Saturday that they should be “making better choices” so that they don’t have to rely on the federal program that provides meals to more than 12% of the U.S. population, including 16 milli...
  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
    10·
    5 days ago

    Elizabeth Warren was a Republican who thought people used bankruptcy as a means of escaping personal liability.

    Warren later recalled that she had begun her research believing that most people filing for bankruptcy were either working the system or had been irresponsible in incurring debts, but that she concluded that such abuse was in fact rare and that the legal framework for bankruptcy was poorly designed, describing the way the research challenged her fundamental beliefs as “worse than disillusionment” and “like being shocked at a deep-down level”.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren

    It was after that Elizabeth Warren moved to become more progressive about how bankruptcy laws and financial regulations.

    Widely regarded as a progressive, she was previously a registered Republican, changing her registration to Democrat in 1996. According to Warren, in the six presidential elections she voted in before 1996, she cast her ballot for just one GOP nominee—Gerald Ford in 1976. Her conservatism at the time was not rooted in social issues like abortion or gay rights, but rather on economic policy.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Elizabeth_Warren

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
      41·
      5 days ago

      Ooh, thank you! I may wish she were further left, but I don’t doubt that she earnestly believes in the views she says she holds, which was what I was wondering.