How old am I?

I'm old enough to remember watching The West Wing back in the early 2000s.  A sort of hour long liberal version of Rush Limbaugh in dramatic form.  Shocking nobody, the Republicans were almost always the bad guys, and the Democrats, barring the odd personality quirk or emotional troubles, did walk in moral and intellectual perfection.  That was why the character of Sam Seaborn, played by Rob Lowe, was so essential, and his departure hurt so badly.  Because while hardly an evil bad guy, he was the show's token "Liberals are only 98% perfect" character, who often put his foot in his mouth while the rest of the West Wing walked on clouds and water.

Anyway, in addressing the big topic of the day, driving home how horrible it is when political parties attack opponents over their personal lives and values and moral failings - things that had been called upon to cease forever during the Lewinsky Scandal - there was a storyline about the character Leo McGarry, the president's Chief of Staff, being an alcoholic.  He just couldn't stop at one drink.  He couldn't imagine how anyone could.  They deftly avoided an affair or sexual assault, but rather something you might call a 'clean' problem, even one beyond his control.  He was the show's Nice Guy character who had kept his little addiction under wraps.  Until those mean, nasty, hypocritical, puritan, rightwing busybodies found out about it and threatened him.  There were several episodes devoted to that storyline, but since he wasn't forced off the show at that point, I'll assume they worked it out and defeated such inquisitorial injustices in the name of political expedience.  

I say all that because: 

Yep.  I've learned the modern Left is a lot like Ohio Weather: If you don't like what they stand for, just wait a minute.  It will change. 

I've also learned that the only thing worse than a group with bad values is a group with no values.  One can be dealt with, resisted, and perhaps even reasoned with. The other?  I think we've seen the obvious over the years.  And yes, Republicans and conservatives can play such 'here today, gone later today' games with standards as well, and it isn't good then either.  Though like so many things, what can happen to the right of center seems almost universal SOP to the left.