BUT... has America’s morals declined.. generally and specifically?..
Any that says NO.... is riding a slippery slope..
Look at the songs(lyrics) penned during the 1930’s/1940’s and the songs NOW...
American black culture is poisonous.. infecting all who it touches..
Yes, just read the writings of some libertarians on FR. Selling drugs to your family is their God-given right. You are a nanny state jackboot licker if you think otherwise. I think the only people who held such views in former times were inmates of mental asylums.
Externals were more polite decades ago, and yet some of the paradigms seem similar.
Romance was surprisingly infrequently tied to marriage and was frequently celebrated in free floating terms. Euphemisms didn’t change that over the last century.
Well OK, the references to marriage have dwindled to almost nothing today. So it was a little better. But the decay was obvious decades ago.