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mvw2 t1_j81a0v2 wrote

Reply to comment by Aazadan in FBI conducting search of former Vice President Mike Pence's home by Picture-unrelated

Pence is a very good politician. He could do great if...he wasn't so religiously extreme.

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Aazadan t1_j81be8g wrote

I don’t know about that. He has a political base that supports him, but this is also a guy who killed a bunch of his own constituents with an AIDS outbreak, with knowledge that his policies would cause that very thing, based purely on ideology. Because he didn’t like tax dollars going to needle exchange programs (even though this then lead to exponentially more tax dollars going to treating AIDS after the fact).

That’s not being a good politician.

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mvw2 t1_j81bqsn wrote

Nope. But it fits his religious side. He's remarkably driven by that component of himself.

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Aazadan t1_j81o633 wrote

Sure, but even Christianity generally says that people have a duty to uphold their community and not ruin it. It even supports the idea of people changing their minds based on new information. And if we want to take the idea that he’s a Bible literalist, there’s still abortion instructions given in there.

Edit: I can give him points for ideological consistency I suppose, but I’m not sure how that actually rates a positive, either by the teachings of his religion or by the metrics of what makes for a good politician.

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hyouko t1_j81lhee wrote

Ah yes, I forgot about the Bible verse castigating needle exchanges. One of those bonus commandments they only teach you about in Advanced Christianity 301.

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