Is this the most progressive decade since the 1960's?

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

Yes, truly nightmarish times indeed.

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

I wonder what the first decade will be that is only "mildly progressive" or even "conservative."  I bet the 2020's will be quite liberal with demographic changes and millennials, but perhaps things will finally shift in the 2030's towards a stasis?  Obviously the 1950's-type social policies that I would like in place will never occur, but I really hope we don't move at this fast of a clip continuously.

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

I wonder what the first decade will be that is only "mildly progressive" or even "conservative."  I bet the 2020's will be quite liberal with demographic changes and millennials, but perhaps things will finally shift in the 2030's towards a stasis?  Obviously the 1950's-type social policies that I would like in place will never occur, but I really hope we don't move at this fast of a clip continuously.

I should have clarified that I favor those in the North at the time, given the predominance of the nuclear family and the heavily Christianized culture.  I do not favor segregation.

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

I wonder what the first decade will be that is only "mildly progressive" or even "conservative."  I bet the 2020's will be quite liberal with demographic changes and millennials, but perhaps things will finally shift in the 2030's towards a stasis?  Obviously the 1950's-type social policies that I would like in place will never occur, but I really hope we don't move at this fast of a clip continuously.

The 1980s, 1990s and 2000s could probably all be described as "conservative" decades.  I expect the 2020s and 2030s to take-on this weird, neo-liberal, corporate, "the world now looks like the inside of an Apple store" type feel before we get an explosion of high-art and culture in the 2040s. 

Does this mean lots of classical music and old-style art, or a completely different form of "high-art and culture"?

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

The Tea Party partially took over one of the big two parties. Occupy is best known from being rousted from parks.

But Occupy is much more popular than the Tea Party, and had many more people participating in it. Less powerful certainly, but more popular.

The Tea Party certainly has more people participating in it than Occupy ever did. It's just that most of the people participating in the Tea Party did so via behind the scenes support for their candidates, as opposed to park takeovers and riots.

Tea party rallies were often huge as well; it's just that they didn't destroy public property or break laws to try to make a point. 

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

Tea party rallies were often huge as well; it's just that they didn't destroy public property or break laws to try to make a point. 

Uh, yes they did.

Sure, but not to the extent of OWS.

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

Occupy and the Tea Party are both sharply declining in relevance, and we're only halfway through the decade.

The difference is that Occupy has largely evolved into other movements such as Black Lives Matter. A lot of the people in Black Lives Matter were Occupy regulars.

What has the Tea Party evolved into?

An actual full-fledged political apparatus that's running the GOP. 

But do they have much public support?

They have their strongest Congressional majorities since the 1920s so I'd say yes. 

That's from gerrymandering.

And having motivated voters in off-years and a natural strength in rural areas/exurbs, of course.