Ok but hear me out… dog chariot.

You are right that your odds for self-sustainability aren’t good to suddenly switch to literary author. You need book deals first. Try talking to some authors (online if nothing else) to see what the day-to-day is like.

Pediatrics has a lot fewer drug addicts and dementia cases. Would you move to a teaching hospital? Changing scenes (while a lot of work) gives a fresh buzz to ambition

His powers expand if he can claim a state of emergency. He likes to keep lots of them happening

Collapsing people’s multidimensional political beliefs onto a single line hides a lot of the data. As long as “conservative” and “liberal” group membership directs votes, the meaning of the terms are actively warped and shifted.