Asked and answered, it’s not going to change because you rephrased the question.
If I took an oath of office you bet your ass I’d be willing. That’s what it means to serve your country in office. If you aren’t willing to uphold your oath, resign.
I would hold no ill will to any person who resigned their position because they are unwilling but if you want to do the job, do it.
It wasn’t all that long ago that people got lynched in the part of the country I live in. A candidate running against MTG–she’s the next district over from me–had so many death threats and close calls that his wife divorced him and he ended up having to move out of the state to save his own life. Maybe you would be dumb and principled and do the right thing though; if so, you’d probable end up dead, esp. in a lot of the states that have really deep red pockets. Then the next person who takes the job, well, they’re probably be a lot less interested in being right and dead, and more interested in being able to go home at night.
Asked and answered, it’s not going to change because you rephrased the question.
Bluntly, I don’t believe you.
It wasn’t all that long ago that people got lynched in the part of the country I live in. A candidate running against MTG–she’s the next district over from me–had so many death threats and close calls that his wife divorced him and he ended up having to move out of the state to save his own life. Maybe you would be dumb and principled and do the right thing though; if so, you’d probable end up dead, esp. in a lot of the states that have really deep red pockets. Then the next person who takes the job, well, they’re probably be a lot less interested in being right and dead, and more interested in being able to go home at night.
Good thing I’m not Tinker Bell and don’t need your belief to have strength in my convictions.
Cowards often like to believe others are just as cowardly as them, it helps rationalize their world view.