As a life-long Michigander, what pence did on Mackinac Island makes me sick.

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56. If not all MI conservatives are outraged at the disrespect, best not

assume they're mostly just defending Pence/Trump.

Attitude toward equality is the single biggest natural (political) difference between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives tend to feel social hierarchy and privilege are both right and natural, that people earn and deserve their level of society. It's equality that doesn't ping with them. All men are created with equal rights just doesn't feel right to them.

Being a born liberal, I was very surprised to learn that conservatives accept being less privileged than others as normal and appropriate, just as much as they accept being privileged over those lower in the hierarchy.

Pence is way up the privilege scale. If there's road damage, some will not resent paying the taxes that repair that at all, even if it means less left for meeting their own needs.

Btw, I love that person who wouldn't give Nixon a reservation, and I'd bet my checking account he or she was NOT conservative, and not for political spite.