Which historical era(s) best represents your politics?

[Beet]

The current era definitely does not represent my political views. The following historical eras are ones most friendly to my politics:

January 22, 1973 - November 4, 1980
From the day Roe v. Wade was handed down until the election of Ronald Reagan, was a good combination of an economically and socially liberal era.

July 16, 1992 - November 8, 1994
From the day Bill Clinton accepted the Democratic nomination/Ross Perot dropped out until the Gingrich Revolution. This period was the culmination of 40 years of Democratic rule.

January 6, 1996 - August 31, 1997
From the end of the government shutdown that ended Gingrich's momentum to the death of Princess Diana represented a hopeful and prosperous time in America's (and world) history.

November 6, 2012 - August 28, 2014
From the day Barack Obama was re-elected until the birth of GamerGate, was a relatively stable period in American history, where there wasn't too much to worry about politically.

June 9, 2016 - November 8, 2016
From the day Clinton effectively won the D primary season until her defeat at the hands of Trump, was a brief period of highs and lows, but mostly it looked like she was winning.

[Antonio the Sixth]

For the US, 1933-1937 and 1964-1967.

Elsewhere in the world: Britain 1945-1951, Sweden at several points in time but especially 1968-1976, Italy 1946-1947 and 1976-1978, France in the late 19th century.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Legitimate question: can you explain what Gamergate was to me in extremely simple terms and how I would have completely missed its existence in 2014?  And why should I care about it today?  Anything I read about it just confuses me more.

I would say:

January 20, 1969-January 21, 1973- The repudiation of cultural liberalism in the 1968 elections (combined with lowering taxes) until the day before the fateful day where the country turned for the worse.

1950s- Taxes were way too high, but families were strong, abortion was illegal, and there was no real counter-culture.

1979-1992- The rise of movement conservatism through the Reagan era (note his rise through the CPAC circuit).  Other than it being legal to kill babies, everything was in a good place.  Even our college campuses were normal, and no there were not major protests.

1880s-1904- Apart from the racism and sexism, other policies were where I would like them to be in this period before the Progressive Era regulations began in the mid-1900s decade.  I thought about extending this to 1913 (the 16th Amendment), but there were too many government intrusions in the economy during the Progressive Era.

[Cassius]

Really depends on my mood I guess. To be tongue in cheek:

If it's bizarre, reactionary mood, then I guess 18th century Britain.
Corrupt spiv mood - Italy 1946-1993, LDP governed Japan, Haughey's Ireland (and 18th century Britain tbh)
Populist bullsh**tter mood - Definitely the United States towards the end of the 1960's and during the 1970's, Haughey's Ireland again and, well, now I guess.
Dull Christian Democrat mood - Germany 1949-1969 and Italy again of course.

[Crumpets]

Sometime in the future, most likely. After that, the mid 90s and first two years of the Obama White House. In a different way, I also think the empassioned liberal opposition in the last three years of the Bush 43 administration were really what got me interested in politics and proud to be a Democrat.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Nov 4 1980-Nov 4 1986- The rise of conservatism and an era where we finally reversed decades old economic policy of taxing  and regulating . This was also a rare republican president who emphasized  economic conservatism over social conservatism and even Foriegn policy conservatism . This era ended when democrats took back the senate in 1986 .

Nov 8 1994- Aug 17 1998-  one of the rare era's where our congress emphasized balancing the budget and were successful at it . Also we finally reformed our welfare system and further deregulation our economy. This era ended with bill clinton testimony.

[TDAS04]

I am somewhat nostalgic for the 90s.  Also the Obama era was a time of hope for progressives.

If we go way back, I can't forget the late 1860s and early 1870s, when the Radical Republicans were in control and the prospects for social equality in the South looked promising.

[Kingpoleon]

1974-1978, 1995-1998.

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Mesozoic (I like union dinosaurs)

[SWE]

All of history was awful tbh

[Kingpoleon]

All of history was awful tbh

USSR 1917-1925?

[SWE]

All of history was awful tbh

USSR 1917-1925?

The USSR was not a good thing, no.

[Kingpoleon]

All of history was awful tbh

USSR 1917-1925?

The USSR was not a good thing, no.

Not even under Lenin and Trotsky?

[Murica!]

The Free Territory(1918-1921)

[SWE]

All of history was awful tbh

USSR 1917-1925?

The USSR was not a good thing, no.

Not even under Lenin and Trotsky?

No.

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Legitimate question: can you explain what Gamergate was to me in extremely simple terms and how I would have completely missed its existence in 2014?  And why should I care about it today?  Anything I read about it just confuses me more.

I would say:

January 20, 1969-January 21, 1973- The repudiation of cultural liberalism in the 1968 elections (combined with lowering taxes) until the day before the fateful day where the country turned for the worse.

I know, it was tragic that President Johnson died on January 22, 1973.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

All of history was awful tbh

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

All of history was awful tbh

I'm afraid I'm afflicted with some sort of appreciation for the entirety of the historical aesthetic (as I understand it). Horrifying, really.

In any case, obviously the Grant, McKinley, T. Roosevelt, and Eisenhower presidencies.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

All of history was awful tbh

I'm afraid I'm afflicted with some sort of appreciation for the entirety of the historical aesthetic (as I understand it). Horrifying, really.

Oh, so am I, but I was trying to answer the question "objectively" (whatever "objectively" means).

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Anyway, they say they asked Mao once what he thought of the French Revolution, and he said it was too soon to tell.

[SATW]

In America:

The Cold War Era:
- In a broad sense, the Cold War Era fits me pretty perfectly. There were Republicans and Democrats I could strongly, passionately and easily support. I would've aligned myself with Scoop Jackson Democrats and Reagan Republicans.
- American Zionism's heyday was during the cold war, imo, when AIPAC and other prominent Pro-Israel orgs started and began doing amazing things for the US-Israel Relationship.
- This was the era of actual bipartisanship and civility in politics. The Howard Baker's and Daniel Patrick Moynihan's of the world fit my worldview of how politics should work perfectly.
- The Post-WW2 era was generally a better time in history for American Jews then say the 1900s-1940s.
- Strong activism on behalf of the Soviet Jews and Ethiopian Jews showed humanity a world that was at least willing to try to be Pro-Jewish in a meaningful sense.
- I would've easily supported the Civil Rights battles and marches of the 1950s-1970s and would've proudly supported people like MLK, John Lewis, Rosa Parks, Ida B. Wells and Bayard Rustin (among many others).
- Some of my ideological heroes were prominent during this time in history: Ronald Reagan, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Jack Kemp, Scoop Jackson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Ed Koch, George Schultz, William and James Buckley etc...

With more specifics in relations to years, 1981-1989 prob were the closest to my political views, with special mentions to 1945-1953 and 1963-1973 due to specific events occurring in those timeframes.


Outside of the Cold War, the 1990's would've also been a good era for me politically. Democrats still had many acceptable pols to me while the GOP was, on balance, still pretty solid.

Early 2000's (2000-2005) fit my politics very well as well.

In Israel:

1945-1949 (Fight for Israel's Independence)
1967-1973 (Six Day War, Yom Kippur War - and everything in between)
1976-1982 (Operation Entebbe, Election and PMship of Menachem Begin)
1986-1992 (Second stint of Yitzhak Shamir's PMship; which saw the second wave of the rescue of Ethiopian Jews, along with the big influx of Soviet Jewish immigrants)
1996-1999 (Election of Bibi and his first term)
2009-2015 (Bibi's 2nd, 3rd and 4th governments and a relatively calm period for Israel - especially compared to the early 2000's).

[Orthogonian Society Treasurer]

1921 through 1929 was pretty phenomenal.

[White Trash]

1933-1941

[OSR stands with Israel]

1933-1941

why stop at 1941, and not the whole period from 1933-1953.

[White Trash]

1933-1941

why stop at 1941, and not the whole period from 1933-1953.

I'm not a fan of the shift towards a larger defense budget and more militarist economy.