Second, we should highlight the risks of the status quo. One of the best approaches to fighting the conservative forces in democratic policy debates is to emphasize the risk of refusing change. We need to ask those who are resistant to change, “Where does the status quo come from?” Everything we know was utterly new at some point in history. The new always appeared to be odd and crazy as measured by the prevailing conventional wisdom. Once committed to and tested, however, the impossible or the extreme can become reasonable, normal, or even inevitable in retrospect.31
