[Derrida]

parents are conservative I guess. Though I'm not really sure. We didn't talk politics that much. My dad usually just ranted and raved about nuking the middle east. I'm a moderate.

[flowersnewaho]

My parents were (are) Social Democrats and I was a lot more left wing. But as I'm getting older I'm slowly sliding back.

Still a pinko loonie from the American view though

[Wvq9InTM]

No.

[PilotJargon]

I seem to be the lone Republican in my family.

[BDDkDvgZ]

My parents are moderates, and so am I.

My father once said he'd vote democrat, even if the candidate was Satan. He wasn't flaming ass liberal, by any means.

[quorceopporce]

My father and step-mother are drank-the-koolaide FOXNews, Rush Limbaugh Repgus. My other is on the left wing of the Democratic Party (and a precinct captain).

I went with my parents are bananas.

[Attarderb]

Both my parents are Labor Dems

[seicslybearee]

My dad's a religious republican, my mom was a Nader democrat. I took after neither one politically. My dad left the picture when I was 10, so my hatred for the hippy left won out over my hatred of the moral majority right.

[Pataacculakp]

My parents were both moderates and so am I.

[T1ivuQGS]

Originally posted by notyoueither
Politics around here are not as simple as Liberal and Conservative. 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.

[Eromereorybig]

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.

[allemnendup]

I absolutely love my parents, but politically we're light years away from eachother. Their political beliefs manifest most of the time in complaints about what is bad in today's politics and society, and usually for them everything is bad

[Paiblyelaxy]

My parents are both very central moderates - they have their opinions on issues, but tend to swing between Labour and the Conservatives, with occasional forays into the Lib Dems when they're really disillusioned.

[JTS_tv]

My parents are fairly moderate liberals. They believe in capitalism and equal opportunity and all that crap.

My father is a big proponent of free trade across the world, believes in socialized medicine, and due to his Jewish heritage, usually supports most things Israel does.

My mother is a bit more rabid in her beliefs, but doesn't articulate them as well. She hates Reagan (mostly because of the effect the recession had on our family) and yells at Bush whenever he's on TV. She's vehemently against the war, and this is mostly expressed through her trepidation over her nephew, a first lieutenant and recent graduate of West Point who's being shipped off to Iraq in a matter of weeks.

I, on the other hand, am a radical of the worst sort. (But I usually describe myself as liberal)

[InsManKV]

The trend is that as people get older they lean to the conservative side, so generally kids will eventually become like their parents. GENERALLY.

My father is a moderate repub.
Now that I'm over 50, so am I.
But my wife likes to cancel out my vote whenever possible.

[Pipindula]

Mother is a Socialist/Communist (somewhere in that range).
Father is a Moderate, leaning to the left.

Me, although I come off as a Conservative and I usually vote Repug (see my sig), I am a social liberal (ex: I support gay marriage and abortion). I only vote repug because my world views are much more conservative (and they are more important to me).

In this poll, I voted My Parents are Moderate, but I am not.