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Do you share your parent's political values?
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09-08-2006, 10:40 AM
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Eromereorybig
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Originally posted by ajbera
I recognize that. My original poll was simply going to be "do you share your parent's politics, yes or no", but that seemed a touch too reductionist. Conversely, had I chosen every possible strain of political ideology and degree of sharing these ideologies and permutations of these options, the poll would be ridiculously long. So, a compromise. I am a moderate, after all.
I take pleasure that the banana option is receiving the lion's share of votes.
However, the poll does indicate that children largely share their parent's politics. My mom's an ideological oportunist chameleon, swinging from conservative to communist when she thinks that helps (and this is not just saying. She was member of the conservative party and since that didn't help, she now supports the communists). *And don't leave the catholic church, you never know when you may benefit*
Despite labeling herself as liberal and open minded, she can always stun you with horrible phrases about gypsies, jews and foreigners in general that seem to come out of nothing (they can ruin a whole evening). And she actually doesn't understand then that she crossed a line and cries foul when I call her xenophobic. Although, she would always agree that "our guys are nothing better". Needless to say, I avoid talking politics with her at all costs.
My father is also some very weird mixture. He comes from a decisively Nazi family, which in certain occasions gets through in some way through opinions about denazification (in his family, this period was known as "the bad times"), collective guilt and other issues. I guess that is because of his close relation to persons tied to that ideology. However, he holds no sympathy for Nazism as an ideology, he isn't even nationalist, nor right wing or conservative, but rather focusses on ecological issues, is pretty anti-capitalist and thinks Evo Morales is a cool guy.
So, he's a green voter with a very mild judgement on the war generation.
So, I'm not much like my mum, but I share my father's thinking about ecology and his general distrust in capitalism. We disagree heavily though on how to judge our nations more immediate past.
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