Election Integrity Is a National Imperative | Mike Pence / @Mike_Pence / March 03, 2
After an election marked by significant voting irregularities and numerous instances of officials setting aside state election law, I share the concerns of millions of Americans about the integrity of the 2020 election.
That’s why when I was serving as presiding officer at the joint session of Congress certifying the Electoral College results, I pledged to ensure that all objections properly raised under the Electoral Count Act would be given a full hearing before Congress and the American people.
Even the best "conservatives" are weak because they simply don't acknowledge the reality of their situation.
Mike Pence is likely a coward or maybe reality impaired, much like Rand Paul. They cling to principles that no longer functionally exist within the current system. Don't get me wrong, I applaud Rand Paul in many ways - but he is not participating in the actual reality at hand, it's rather sad and non-productive and - suicidal.
His own strengths are are now his weakness, it's like the trope where the AI is blown up because you use its own logic against it, trapping it in a loop - thus effectively disabling it.
President Trump himself appears to have been caught in this loop as well, despite having the most tools in the tool box despite the compromised nature of that toolbox. Four years is a fair amount of time to get your loyal ducks in a row. But, I will leave that there because Trump was always the one taking the fight to the enemy, but where the fuck were the other patriots? Maybe it was one burden too much - breaking with "tradition" declaring martial law or insurrection or unleashing the power of an executive order...
Compliance to instructions and procedures are absolutely necessary for the proper functioning of a system - but once the system has been subverted, compliance to the system becomes impotent and laughably ineffective.
Pence (like Paul and other "conservatives") had his chance to "think differently" and send the questionable electoral results back to their respective states - but instead he chose to blindly follow procedure.
Traditions are great - but if you lack the wisdom to know when it is justified to break with it -you will go extinct.
It would have a sparked a crisis of some kind, no doubt - a Constitutional Crisis, perhaps - but the festering boil would have likely been lanced and cauterized before the gangrene set in.
Nothing can ever be guaranteed, but it would have focused the American Mind at that period of time. Instead it fractured via distraction and the impaired ability to respond to actual reality by people who claimed that to be a "virtue".
Instead, here we are...our fevered Republic is facing a systemic crisis that has spread beyond the few swing states with voting "irregularities".
It isn't Hypocrisy, It's Hierarchy
Conquest's Laws And The Myth Of Neutral Institutions
On the extreme edges: