Re:The Bain Capital Files
by jahmed on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @04:08AM
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Living in a world where so much more takes place online and data being relatively permanent if one was determined how do we extend that rule. At this point a whole generation is already out of politics from scandalous Facebook photos and suggestive texts.
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Re:The Bain Capital Files
by smacktoward on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @09:21AM
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My guess is that as those people come of age we'll gradually see a sort of silent consensus to ignore that stuff within certain parameters -- if they were a certain age or younger, say, or as long as no serious laws were broken.
It's happened before. Look at how society has evolved on questions of politicians' drug use, for instance. In 1970 admitting to have ever used marijuana would have been an instant career killer for a politician. By 1992 Bill Clinton could admit having used it, as long as he hedged the admission with a bunch of caveats -- he didn't inhale, etc. And by 2008 Barack Obama could openly admit having smoked pot regularly without any negative repercussions, as long as it was only in his wayward youth.