Yes. Something funademntal has changed and it wasn't recently. It's not so much the issues Bush and other politicians DO speak up about, it's the ones in which they do not; abortion, the removal of God from our institutions, the harrassment of the Boy Scouts over their stand against homosexuality, etc. But, something basic, moral and fundamental has been lost when no firm stand is taken over an issue like this which is about right against wrong, life over death and good versus evil. Something like that did not disappear overnight.
Nothing has changed since Adam and Eve except fot those who accept Jesus as lord.