Yes. But it wasn’t as evident. President Reagan was in charge, the Moral Majority was large and thriving and even Hollywood was making fun of the Soviets - remember the burger commercials mocking the Soviets? And we still had the family hour on tv!
Absolutely it was evident.
Except for people in denial.
Abortion. The rapidly ascending homosexual movement.
The high levels of pedophilia, and the broad efforts that worked to cover that up which were still mostly successful at the time.
The adulation given to celebrities and athletes who would have been quite properly in jail if they were employed in any other enterprise.
The ever growing drug problem.
The only people who couldn’t see our moral decay were the people who defiantly refused to see our moral decay even when someone from outside pointed our heads at it and held our eyelids up.