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Sometimes it seems that contemporary American politics and the sometimes upside-down policies of our dysfunctional Congress are so entangled and opaque that it\u2019s impossible to sort out what\u2019s true and what\u2019s false.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, there are a few people on the national scene that have the right combination of communication skills, brain power, and moxie to come to our aid and ease our troubled minds.\u00a0 One of those people is Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.<\/p>\n

In the video below Senator Warren rides to the rescue and demonstrates how to tease out the knots and connect up the dots. Listen\u2014and listen well\u2014to her description of her \u201cstate of disbelief\u201d and her clear-eyed explanation about how Republicans took us all hostage with their delusional shutdown of our federal government.<\/p>\n

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