Political analysis should ask what systems activate people’s best rather than why people flip.

Evidence

The question I am left with is not the one I hear so frequently about her: How did a person like that turn into a person like this? But: What kind of system is most likely to light up the best parts of all of us—and sustain the fire beyond a protest, or a summer uprising, or a presidential campaign? — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1103

Categorization

• APHORISMS: The reframed question — not ‘how did that person become this’ but ‘what systems light up the best in us and sustain it’ — is a usable lens for evaluating political and institutional design.