I understand every instance of criticism that Mike Pence has endured in these comments. I won’t refute any of your arguments, but would ask you to consider one question. Are you better, really?…or only as you frame it?
At this time, I respect Mike Pence more than I ever have. He is on my top five list of “conservatives” or conservatives I…
I understand every instance of criticism that Mike Pence has endured in these comments. I won’t refute any of your arguments, but would ask you to consider one question. Are you better, really?…or only as you frame it?
At this time, I respect Mike Pence more than I ever have. He is on my top five list of “conservatives” or conservatives I would like to down a few beers with as they get drunk enough to be totally honest with me. And I would ask him many questions, but they would be respectful.
I have a conservative view of government and its relationship with the individual and I have many conflicts with his social positions. But he and I are firmly aligned on my priority, it appears. Should I not applaud him for this fact?
IMHO, he abandoned many of his principles and entered the death spiral of rationalization that so many do in politics today. Once rationalized, how many ever question, certainly name one that has exited.
So how could he ever exit the spiral, and do the right thing in any instance? But he did. I want to understand this.
Why did he not reject the legally verified electors? He should have. He was already in a state of rationalization. He had some lawyers telling him it was okay. He had his boss telling him it was okay. It appears that he had random members of congress telling him it was okay. A bunch of people in various and diverse states signed fake elector slates, also telling him it was okay. If we had travelled this far, I think most would have gone along with more rationalization to protect confronting our past justifications.
But somehow, in the midst of this death spiral, Pence’s principles became the primary motive. And I want to know – HOW? I want to be able to do that, if I get sucked into the black hole of rationalization.
Some will tell me, his life was threatened and it shocked him out. I would reply - he had to understand that was a consequence his actions would incur ahead of time, as all his actions appear very deliberately slow and decided in this instance, and yet, he still chose to take them. Yeah, sure, this may have restored or validated his restored principles to himself. But still there is a reemergence of principles that I believe most of us would not have experienced.
I think Pence was very far down the spiral and pulled out. He may not benefit from doing so publicly, but I think he has a lot of individual satisfaction and personal power from doing so. I am not sure, that I had gone as far as he did, that I could have pulled back. If you have no issue that you would, I encourage personal reflection.
I want to know how he did so, and I think a failure to recognize this rarity is a missed opportunity..
I understand every instance of criticism that Mike Pence has endured in these comments. I won’t refute any of your arguments, but would ask you to consider one question. Are you better, really?…or only as you frame it?
At this time, I respect Mike Pence more than I ever have. He is on my top five list of “conservatives” or conservatives I would like to down a few beers with as they get drunk enough to be totally honest with me. And I would ask him many questions, but they would be respectful.
I have a conservative view of government and its relationship with the individual and I have many conflicts with his social positions. But he and I are firmly aligned on my priority, it appears. Should I not applaud him for this fact?
IMHO, he abandoned many of his principles and entered the death spiral of rationalization that so many do in politics today. Once rationalized, how many ever question, certainly name one that has exited.
So how could he ever exit the spiral, and do the right thing in any instance? But he did. I want to understand this.
Why did he not reject the legally verified electors? He should have. He was already in a state of rationalization. He had some lawyers telling him it was okay. He had his boss telling him it was okay. It appears that he had random members of congress telling him it was okay. A bunch of people in various and diverse states signed fake elector slates, also telling him it was okay. If we had travelled this far, I think most would have gone along with more rationalization to protect confronting our past justifications.
But somehow, in the midst of this death spiral, Pence’s principles became the primary motive. And I want to know – HOW? I want to be able to do that, if I get sucked into the black hole of rationalization.
Some will tell me, his life was threatened and it shocked him out. I would reply - he had to understand that was a consequence his actions would incur ahead of time, as all his actions appear very deliberately slow and decided in this instance, and yet, he still chose to take them. Yeah, sure, this may have restored or validated his restored principles to himself. But still there is a reemergence of principles that I believe most of us would not have experienced.
I think Pence was very far down the spiral and pulled out. He may not benefit from doing so publicly, but I think he has a lot of individual satisfaction and personal power from doing so. I am not sure, that I had gone as far as he did, that I could have pulled back. If you have no issue that you would, I encourage personal reflection.
I want to know how he did so, and I think a failure to recognize this rarity is a missed opportunity..