The Good Old Days.

From The "State of Affairs In Lilliput," by Samuel Johnson, 1738:

"Our ancestors, in ancient times, had some regard to the moral regard of person sent to represent them in their national, and would have shown some degree of resentment, or indignation, had their votes been asked for a murderer, an adulterer, a known oppressor, an hireling evidence, an attorney, a gamester, or a pimp."

A pimp? Boy, they had standards in those days!