Anarchy and Dissolution

Increasingly it is not what you did, rather who you are and if you are permitted to get away with it.

Government people are special. They're not like you and me. They have special exemptions for everything. It's like during the Middle Ages when the local royal might run down one of your family members with their carriage and send you a pig for Christmas, if they were in a good mood.

Government routinely gets away with things now that previous generations would've considered monstrous. Whole regimes were toppled in the 50's and 60's over scandals like these.

Since modern people are without shame and without consciences, there can be no scandals. All things are permitted to those who know the right people.

Pedophiles exposed in the 70's would've committed suicide before the headlines were even printed. Nowadays they don't even interrupt their dinner plans.

"Top Secret" clearance used to mean you were an exemplary person who could be trusted. Now it means a person who can never be trusted by definition.