The degeneration began in the mid 1960s. I remember it well.
The allowance of vagrants back on the streets.
Bail on your own recognizance.
The beginning of anti gun propaganda.
The degrading of language when the libs insisted that the most foul language become normal.
The death of John Kennedy and later Bobby Kennedy began the feminization of American men.
The attempts to “de-violence” society.
The allowance of the movie industry to “police themselves” with a rating system. This allowed them to churn out the most vile films ever made.
The GREAT SOCIETY war on POVERTY.
REMOVAL of Silver from coinage.
There are other things that happened then which began the degradation of civilization.
Criminalizing speech; we always just said “sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me”.