How do your political views relate to those of your parents?

[funkybutt]

Poll question: How do your political views relate to those of your parents?

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[SheepyMcSheepster]

1. well, my parents don't share the same views so....

my mom and I agree about most things, but i haven't talked politics with my dad since he proclaimed fox was fair and balanced at thanksgiving before the invasion.

[Delano]

2. Parents divorced-

More or less agree with Dad, disagree with Mom (though she's pretty sheeepish about her GOP views, and they're mostly just to be in agreement with her husband.

I think the differences in their values contributed a lot to the divorce. He cared about family and home life, she cared about money, status and social climbing to the exclusion of most everything else...

[David__77]

3. Flaw in poll.

One of my parents is a rightist and the other is a traditional, LBJ-style liberal. So I can't assess their views as a collective whole.

[MrSlayer]

28. Mom is a moderate Dem, Dad is a neo-Con.

I can't vote in this.

[Tellurian]

4. My entire family are rabid republicans...

but they Love Me ennyway.

[Suziq]

5. I Take After My . . .

father who was president of our local Democratic Club in Brooklyn. My first political experience was distributing flyers for Kennedy in 1960. My mom also voted strictly democrat.

He passed away a long time ago. I am sure he is rolling in his grave with what is going on in this country today.

:hippie:

[name not needed]

6. Pretty much the same,

even though I would say i am much more liberal than my parents. My dad was a staffer for Humphrey and my mom worked in a Democratic Party headquarters a while back.

[mitchum]

7. My mom is a Democrat because she HATES republicans...

with a passion. My dad is just a Democrat.

[JETS]

8. For starters, my father and I both agree that Rush is an asshole n/t

[jus_the_facts]

9. My parents are Southern Baptist Fundie Pukes.....

....yet I still love 'em despite their sheep mentality and continue to reason with 'em with logic and reason....but to no avail. :(

[Shopaholic]

29. My parents are Southern Baptist Liberal Democrats!

As am I. Go figure! I guess we forgot to drink the kool-aid or something.

[redqueen]

10. I'm more liberal than my parents

both support Democrats, but don't think critically. They also tend to be more racist than not. :(

[mirandaod]

They were life long Dems

and they'd be furious to see this mess.

[ceile]

11. We totally agree

I was raised by a single Mom with ultra liberal views. She has mellowed a litlle in the past 10 years or so. She called CLinton "immoral" for the Lewinsky thing, but she agreed getting a bj is not nearly as bad as going to war on a lie.

[funkybutt]

12. Wow...i wasn'te expecting such a blow out (n/t)

[donco6]

13. My PARENTS and I agree, but my siblings . . .

. . . well, let's just say we don't discuss politics. Or religion.

[Massacure]

14. My dad is a rascist right-wing junkie

My mom doesn't give a rats ass about politics.

On social issues I'm right in the center, and on economic I lean left.

[Bronco69]

15. My parent's views are just like mine.

In 1992 My mother was 63 years old and she had never voted before in her life. I talked her into registering to vote and she voted for The Big Dog!

[jayavarman]

16. Wish there was an 'other'

I don't even think my folks vote

[funkybutt]

31. good point

i also could have addressed the divorced parents' views as well

[LiberalCat]

17. Don't know their views.

My mom always said that voting was private, so she wouldn't tell anybody who she voted for. My father and mother never discussed politics. My mother said, "Never give your opinion, because people will use it against you."

My mom and I have completely opposite views on that.

[izzie]

18. My father and mother gave a lot of money to the GOP but-------

they were of the party of Ike. Now I wonder if they would be Republicans. I have friends that have those beliefs and have moved to the Dem party. They sort of sit in the Middle and are people who vote for Snowe etc.

[tilsammans]

19. Mom was a registered Republican; Dad was an Independent

Both tended to be centrist more often than not.

And both would be appalled to see what the U.S. government has become.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

20. My dad is a racist homophobic me-firster with zero compassion.

He thinks altruism is somebody's name. And my mom thinks whatever he tells her to think, as far as I can tell. It's sad.

[doni_georgia]

21. My parents are rabid Republicans

They're of that 1950s generation (graduated from high school in 1956 married in 1957). They are Eisenhower kids. Funny, but I agree in politics with my mom and dad's older siblings who are of the 1940s generation. My parents are still stuck in the 50s. They really are Ward and June Cleaver.

[eissa]

22. My late father was more of a socialist,

but my mother's entire side are a bunch of intolerant,unquestioning, Faux-watching, God-appointed-W, right-wingers. I miss my dad :cry:

[ironflange]

23. It's kind of complicated

My dad, when he was alive (R.I.P. 1990), before every election would sit us all down so we could decide who to vote for, so our votes "wouldn't be wasted." This was always the Conservative candidate (this is Canada). Nobody followed his instructions. I would usually vote Rhino, and my mom, well, there's another story. She voted for people because "His wife looks nice," or "He's really well dressed," or "My neighbors know her" or crazy things like that. Sheesh!

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

24. My dad seems to be drifting right, while my ma remains SPD.

well,.,shes a registered "Democrat", but her potlics came from the old Gerrman SPD.

My dad is a "Reagan Democrat", who is developing a bad habit of watching Fox and liking O'Reilly. I sort of have to 'deprogram' him and bring him back into the fold when I visit.

Still, I think hes pretty much a Democrat. He cant stand Bush.

[drumwolf]

25. my parents are relatively moderate Republicans

They're Korean immigrants in their sixties, so they're fairly conservative, and yes, they vote Republican.

However, they are relatively moderate as Republicans go. Not that this is saying much, but they're infinitely more sane and intelligent than your typical rabid American wingnut moran who watches Fox and listens to folks like Hannity or Rush.

My sister is more centrist than I am, but she votes Democrat for the most part, mainly because of how far right the GOP has gone.

[PfNJ]

26. Both parents are repubs.....

My mother is far gone, a foaming-at-the-mouth-wingnut.....

My father votes repub as well, but doesn't hold strong views, basically just votes for them out of habit, sometimes I can discuss certain issues (mostly economic issues), and he can sometimes see the left side of things, but on cultural issues, forget about it, he's one of the most racist, homophobic people I've ever met.....

My mother has brainwashed one of my sisters, and tried the same on me when I was young (it didn't work! HA!), my other sister is more of an independant, but is rabidly anti-choice, and would never vote for anyone who wasn't.....

I sometimes wonder how I turned out normal? At least virtually all of my friends are left-of-center, and I have high hopes for my daughter! :-)

[leyton]

27. My parents are more liberal than I (by a smidgen), but also more educated

and experienced so it only makes sense.

[Selwynn]

30. Different views but agree on some aspects...

I think my parents are basically liberal without knowing it. :D

[Deja Q]

32. I dunno who they voted fore before 1980, but they've changed since then.

More and more Dem thanks to Bush I and triply so because of shrubco*. They're not so fond of Reagan these days either.

[Piperay]

33. Yellow-Dog Democrats

my father, brother and myself. My mother was a yellow dog too but she is gone now. :-( When I was growing up my parents were repukes and when I first voted I was too but that has all been long ago. We all became Democrats around the same time and my father absolutely loathed raygun and would get off on a rant about the guy that could last for hours. :-) I would dread it when I would hear him start out with 'did you hear what raygun did today' because I knew a long rant and vent was just starting and sometimes it was even too much for me. :shrug: :-)

[Curious Dave]

34. Both are Repugs

I've refused to speak to either of them for over 15 years.