Rank each decade from the 1910s from most conservative to most liberal

[OSR stands with Israel]

Ill go like this

Most Conservative
1920s
2000s
1980s
1990s
1950s
1970s
2010s
1940s
1910s
1930s
1960s
Most Liberal

[Craziaskowboi]

CONSERVATIVE

1910s
1920s
1980s
2000s
1950s
1990s
1940s
1960s
2010s
1970s
1930s

LIBERAL

[OSR stands with Israel]

CONSERVATIVE

1910s
1920s
1980s
2000s
1950s
1990s
1940s
1960s
2010s
1970s
1930s

LIBERAL

The 1910s were not any where close to conservative (at least for the US) let alone the most conservative decade . You had a very progressive president in Woodrow wilson who past a lot of labor friendly laws ,  and strengthened anti trust laws, child labor laws passed, 8 hour work days were past,  the income tax was created in the 1910s and they went as high as 77% by the end of the decade, women got suffrage during the  decade,  the framework for the UN was formed in the 1910s(the league of nations).

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Most Conservative
1980s
1920s
1970s
2000s
1910s
1960s
1990s
1950s
2010s
1940s
1930s
Most Liberal

[OSR stands with Israel]

Most Conservative
1980s
1920s
1970s
2000s
1910s
1960s
1990s
1950s
2010s
1940s
1930s
Most Liberal

I agree with this order, except that I would move the 1960's to 3rd most liberal.  If we're discounting the influence of 2009, we need to similarly discount 1969.  I'm a little uncomfortable with the 1950's being in the liberal half, but considering how historically remarkable a 91% top marginal tax rate and the strength of unions were, I have to say that edges out the get married when you're 20 and make 4 babies in 4 years aspect of the 1950's.

How is the 1980s more conservative then the 1920s , in the 1920s the government had no intervention in the economy , put quotas on immigrants , taxes were lower, and Coolidge was the most conservative president in the post civil war era , prohibition.

And how is the 1910s in the conservative section , I just gave an explanation why it wasn't close to conservative

[tpfkaw]

In chronological order except I'd put the 50s down as more conservative than the 30s or 40s.

[Orthogonian Society Treasurer]

1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s

[OSR stands with Israel]

In chronological order except I'd put the 50s down as more conservative than the 30s or 40s.

How were the  30s and 40s and 60s more Conservative then the 80s or 2000s and same with 10s more conservative then the 1920s.

[Orthogonian Society Treasurer]

In chronological order except I'd put the 50s down as more conservative than the 30s or 40s.

How were the  30s and 40s and 60s more Conservative then the 80s or 2000s and same with 10s more conservative then the 1920s.

The conservatism of a society is generally judged by the attitudes and beliefs of the people therein, not what the top tax bracket happens to be. 

[Sumner 1868]

1920s
1980s
2010s
2000s
1950s
1940s
1990s
1970s
1930s
1910s
1960s

[YaBoyNY]

This is really just an exercise in futility.

[Sir Mohamed]

CONSERVATIVE
1980s
1920s
1990s
2000s
1910s
1970s
1950s
2010s
1940s
1930s
1960s
LIBERAL

[ScottieF]

1920s
1980s
2000s
1990s
1950s
1970s
2010s
1910s
1940s
1930s
1960s

[Mr. Smith]

You "60's is the most liberal" people are forgetting the pretty big conservative undercurrent that was flowing through.

Between the state of The South, Goldwater, The Silent Majority, John Birch, Vietnam even happening at all...sorry but no.

The 30's was nowhere near as awful when came to undercurrents, and FDR had a stronger hold than LBJ.

[OSR stands with Israel]

In chronological order except I'd put the 50s down as more conservative than the 30s or 40s.

How were the  30s and 40s and 60s more Conservative then the 80s or 2000s and same with 10s more conservative then the 1920s.

The conservatism of a society is generally judged by the attitudes and beliefs of the people therein, not what the top tax bracket happens to be. 

Sure, but economics does also count.  The Tea Party wouldn't be thrilled about living in 1935-60.  In a size and powers of the government sense, those were not conservative times.  And if we're going purely on social issues, shouldn't the 1920's be left of the 1950's and the 1990's right of the 1960's/70's?

no because in the 1920s racism was at its 20th century peak , very strict immigration laws were passed,  there was a huge anti catholic sentiment in the country, there was prohibition of alcohol, and teaching evolution was banned in many states . In the  1950s schools got desegregated, a civil rights law was passed, and many other public places got desegregated .

[Orthogonian Society Treasurer]

In chronological order except I'd put the 50s down as more conservative than the 30s or 40s.

How were the  30s and 40s and 60s more Conservative then the 80s or 2000s and same with 10s more conservative then the 1920s.

The conservatism of a society is generally judged by the attitudes and beliefs of the people therein, not what the top tax bracket happens to be.  

Sure, but economics does also count.  The Tea Party wouldn't be thrilled about living in 1935-60.  In a size and powers of the government sense, those were not conservative times.  And if we're going purely on social issues, shouldn't the 1920's be left of the 1950's and the 1990's right of the 1960's/70's?

The social conservatism of the 1950s is largely a myth created by wistful advertising executives in the 1970s. Thoughts and ideas that would have been considered unthinkable in the 1920s were dinner table talk in the 50s. The sexual revolution didn't just occur apropos of nothing, the social unraveling that lead to it had been fomenting for years.

[Orser67]

1920s
1980s
1990s
2000s
1970s
2010s
1940s
1910s
1950s
1960s
1930s

The 1920s and 1980s were the two big "conservative retrenchment" decades in which liberal reforms were rolled back. Conservatives had the upper hand for most of the 1990s and 2000s and liberals just did their best to slow conservative momentum until the financial crisis broke the Republican Party for a few years. The 1970s were a transition decade in which the liberal consensus was still intact but conservatives were beginning to win the national conversation. The 2010s are a similarly split decade in which liberalism has definitely made a comeback (especially in the Democratic Party) and scored some huge victories in Obamacare and Obergefell, but a very strong conservative plurality remains. The 1910s are often overlooked for their impact on progressivism, but the decade saw the implementation of the income tax, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, the Federal Reserve, and the FTC. The 1930s through 1960s were a period in which liberalism dominated, and while a backlash started in the 1960's, that decade also saw the second largest expansion of government with the Great Society. Conservatives were largely able to check any further liberal moves in the 1940s despite two liberal presidents, whereas the 1950s saw the beginning of the Warren Court's judicial revolution. I really think that the 1930's has to be first; that decade changed government as we know it.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

There are so many ways to measure this, and I'm not comfortable including this decade until we know what happens in this election, but:

1980s
1920s
2000s
1970s
1950s
1990s
1960s
1940s
1910s
1930s

[Mr. Smith]

Let's see:

1980's
1920's
2000's
1990's
2010's (currently)
1970's
1950's
1960's
1940's
1910's
1930's

[OSR stands with Israel]

Tara why do you have the 2010s so high on your conservative list, even higher then the 2000s and 1990s which had a lot more conservative politics and a conservative  public.


Why do people have the 1980s more conservative then then the 20s

In the 20s we had  a total laizze faire economy, taxes were cut more dramatically then the 80s(it went from 77% to 25% in the 20s),spending was cut a lot more dramatically in the 1920s, Republicans were a lot more dominant in the 1920s as they controlled congress by large margins while in the 80s democrats controlled them, Harding and Coolidge were more conservative then Reagan and Bush, and in the 1920s their was an anti catholic movement growing stronger,very strict  immigration laws , like the 80s there was a massive red scare in the 20s, racism grew in the 20s, and evoultion was banned in many states.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

In chronological order except I'd put the 50s down as more conservative than the 30s or 40s.

I'd also put the 80s as more conservative than the 70s.

[The_Doctor]

1920s
1980s
1990s
1970s
1950s
1910s
1940s
1960s
1930s

Stopped in the year 2000 because I think the 20th century and 21st centuries should be considered different historical eras altogether.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Bump

[OSR stands with Israel]

Bump

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Most Conservative
1920s
1980s
1950s
1940s
1910s
2000s
1990s
1970s
2010s
1960s
1930s