Following the 1960s, what did neoconservatives believe had happened to the nation's sense of morals? they had improved. they had deteriorated. they had positively influenced other countries. they had failed to adapt to changing business practices.

#1) Following the 1960s, what did neoconservatives believe had happened to the nation's sense of morals?
they had deteriorated. The sixties was a time when the old secure framework of morality, authority, and discipline disintegrated. It was a time when everything happened, black civil rights; youth culture and trend-setting by young people; idealism, protest, and rebellion; the triumph of popular music based on Afro-American models and the emergence of this music as a universal language, with the Beatles as the heroes of the age; the search for inspiration in the religions of the Orient; massive changes in personal relationships and sexual behaviour; a general audacity and frankness in books and in the media, and in ordinary behaviour; relaxation in censorship; the new feminism; gay liberation; the emergence of 'the underground' and 'the counter-culture'; optimism and genuine faith in the dawning of a better world. For good or ill, something significant happened in the sixties.