Q But what, what does that mean? Can you just double click into you being you? What is that, that was, that made them so uncomfortable?
A Well, I'll give you an example. My, my first vote in the United States Senate was a vote on the issue of Israel, and I got a call from, at the time, minority leader, Chuck Schumer, and he asked me to vote no. On, on the measure. And I said, well, there's zero chance I'm voting no on this measure. This is a, this is a vote to stand with Israel. Like, the chance I vote no is a hard zero. He was like, ah, this is partisan, and we gotta be unity, and, and I don't, like, I'm not gonna share the details of that conversation, but it was a, it was a partisan conversation. And for me, I was like this, I'm, I'm confused about the nature of this conversation, because the idea that I'm gonna change my vote because someone else wants me to, Is never going to happen. Right. The only thing that would cause me to change my vote is to get new information that changes the calculus for my decision. Right. Cause that's a sign of growth and learning is if you get new information, right? There was no new information. It was just a party vote. And I said, yeah, well, I don't need to go to the party. Like I'm going to vote the way that I believe. And, um, for me, that didn't seem like a particularly important moment. It's just how I am, but it, that, that was problematic for other people.
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