America is a land of myth. Not myth as in a sense of falseness, but myth as in a land that never quite has realized what people imagine it to be.
The Founding Fathers were myths in their own times and have been boiled down to simplistic descriptions.
The Civil War has as many mythical stories and interpretations as the story of the Trojan War, and just as many interesting and flawed characters.
The American GI became a mythic icon during both World Wars.
The 50's have a mythic sense of morality while the 70's have a mythic sense of depravity.
But we know that ascribing a mythic standard to everyone or everything in a group or time period is nonsensical. We have never been the model Christian nation that Pat tries to convince us we once were. We are not now the lost, wayward runaway that he believes we have become.
The sexual depradations that shown in those videos would have been condemned by Cotton Mather as well as Gloria Steinem. But Cotton Mather would have condemned female circumcision as well, let's not forget that. Just as the most radical feminist finds repulsive the idea of denying education to women so do Christians. But Pat doesn't see that. He sees Brittany Spears as a danger to Western Civilization, just as many saw the Beatles, or Elvis, or Glen Miller, or Al Jolson.
Western Civilization, and indeed sincere Christian existance within Western Civilization, has survived fine without heeding the warnings of the worrywarts and naysayers of every generation. It will do fine ignoring Pat Buchanan as well.
There is some truth to this, but are you trying to say that the culture is no better or worse than it was 50 years ago? Our cultural exports are far more depraved than ever before in our history. Something like gangster rap would not even be permitted to exist a few short decades ago, and not because of racism.