And why do you think they pushed it? And why do you think they were able to do so?
Because we tolerated it. Because we allowed it. Because we decided we all needed to live and let live when we shouldn’t have.
No, because government expanded. In fact, much of the reason it expanded was to stop degeneracy. Look at the ban on alcohol as a prominent example of this. And the war on drugs.
Yet the government has consistently shown that it isn't capable of actually stopping degeneracy. Instead, it will morph to oppose goodness instead, because that is easy.
This country had obscenity laws for most of its existence. Not covered under first Amendment. It only started getting lifted in the 1960’s. Combined with other factors that led to the decline of social standards, is it any wonder that society has gone to hell?
What’s next? ‘You can’t legislate morality’? That’s what laws DO.
They
don't. Or more accurately, cannot do so successfully. People try to legislate morality all the time, but only cause more problems.
Also, laws aren't supposed to legislate morality in the US. They are intended to preserve rights. There's a difference between the two.
Finally, once you succeed at getting morality legislated, you do know that the left generally controls the culture, right? Those laws won't be used against your enemies, but against you. What you do will be called degenerate.
This is why the right is moronic: they always call for more government, not realizing that the left will always be better at the government game than them, and then whine when the left uses government against them. The second they get an ounce of power back, their first instinct is "Let's give more power to government!"