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Things are very different now. by mkovac

Back before the Internet and cell phone cameras that can now record drunken behavior and bad language at private parties, hallway conversations, and nascent sex scandals in Foggy Bottom (think of the late Wilbur Mills - link), members of Congress could get away with a heck of a lot.

No more.

If they so much as look sideways at a stranger, it's on Twitter ("X Files" as I now call it, and I refuse to sign up for it) before the parties have made it home that day or night.

All of this all caps bullshit has destroyed both the innocent and the guilty and now people are "canceled" and innocent family members are also destroyed at their places of work or school.

As W.B. Yeats so accurately foretold our future:

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

Makes you not want to get out of bed in the morning.