The Persian Gulf war that ended too soon, giving us too little, too late, and left Saddam Hussein in power to strike again. The reign of the Clintons, the glamorization of corruption and violence, the final slide of the media, the techno-revolution, and the sellout of America to China and other hostile foreign powers. The Florida vote count fiasco, further dividing the nation. Supreme Court intervenes in the election fiasco, and Bush wins. Television violence abounds.
School shootings increase, along with road rage and assorted other rages.
Ethics are situational, not absolute. All of this distortion led to flagrant and unrestrained revisionism. If we don't agree with the Constitution as written or as intended, then by all means, get the courts to revise the original intent to accommodate our wishes. If history doesn't portray what special interest groups want it to say, well rewrite the books. Somehow the meaning of true freedom has been lost in the muck and mire of false freedom, or licentiousness.