None of this would have been necessary if Clinton hadn’t been elected.
The election of Bill Clinton in 1992 was indeed a turning point for the country. I do see that as a dividing line between the old U.S. of my youth, and a new U.S. that is coarser and more degenerate. I don’t think it’s totally coincidental that it marked the end of the World War II generation running the country. From Eisenhower through Bush 41, we had an unbroken line of presidents who had served in the military in some capacity in WW2. That same generation also ran major institutions (business, universities etc) and by the early ‘90s that was all coming to an end... with the Baby Boomers taking over... and everything pretty much going to hell.