So many things have gotten worse, it’s hard to remember them all. What has gotten better ? I can’t name a single thing. If I lived in some other place with an intact values system of right and wrong and had a place to described to me as today’s USA, I would say evil had won there. Instead of Charlton Heston raging on the beach at the end of “Planet of the Apes”, you’d have Ben Franklin mad as hell at everything that had been done for us, all ruined, and for what ?
Most people expanded the ability to lie to themselves without shame, remorse or regret. So there’s that...