Originally posted by gokenin Are we soo jaded that it no longer phases us is that the reason I hear those crickets?
dingdingdingding! We have a winner!
No one gives a rat's ass. No one thinks that powerful people are immune to temptation. Most of all, no one thinks that a tendency toward sexual misconduct breaks down along party lines.
At least, no one with a reasonable amount of experience and intelligence.
But jaded is right. These scandals are a dime a dozen. And if, in the past, before we were so jaded, before the internet and social media really took hold and made these stories bigger than they needed to be...before all of this, if it seemed the outcry was perhaps a little bit louder when this happened to an R than when it happened to a D, there is one very very obvious reason. I doubt I even need to say it, sooo......
Thanks for playing, chief.