I frankly wouldnt mind if the abortion opponents, or the climate change deniers, creationsists, flat earthers or any other such group decided to blow up a few politicians' careers by emptying their closets on Main Street.
As long as they actually do this instead of using the skeletons to blackmail the guy into submission i'm perfectly fine with it. We may not agree with their goals, but the side-effects of their activity would be positive. That's one crook out of the game - which can't be a bad thing.
Since the opposing groups would likely be employing a similar cleanup strategy, we might just end up with honest politicians with empty closets as a neat side-effect.
I just think that probably 90% of the current crop of politicians probably have SOME skeleton in their closet -- and it might not even be that they're a crook as much as something else that gets them voted out of office. An obvious possibility is to demonstrate that he or she is an atheist -- a HUGE fraction of people in the US won't vote for an otherwise qualified atheist. Is that a skeleton you feel would be justified in killing a politician's career?
This is also vigilante justice we're talking about, so an alleged skeleton could be someone posting an unsubstantiated rumor.
And keep in mind that there's absolutely no guarantee that the "replacement" who supports each group's agenda WON'T be a crook. Which means we're really talking higher churn, not higher integrity of politicians.
As long as they actually do this instead of using the skeletons to blackmail the guy into submission i'm perfectly fine with it. We may not agree with their goals, but the side-effects of their activity would be positive. That's one crook out of the game - which can't be a bad thing.
Since the opposing groups would likely be employing a similar cleanup strategy, we might just end up with honest politicians with empty closets as a neat side-effect.