I ask myself the same question. Can’t pin it down to any one thing specific, several things probably, but I’m fairly certain the timing was during the Clintons. Seems like morality, and honesty went on vacation starting the spiral downward.
I got a lot of good responsese to my post.
But it did start really going downhill with Clinton.
Even some dem politician said we were “defining deviancy down”, I think, back then.
So dems once thought morality existed. A long time ago. At least in some instances. Now there are none.
The whole thing with Monica...I remember people defending him in my office..if The Great One (Ronald Reagan) had acted like that, I would have expected him to resign, lying under oath or not.
But it’s an insult to even suggest He would.
The times, they started a’changin