Politics in Your Family

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What are the political beliefs of your family members?

I don't know how to label myself but I tend to get labeled "liberal". My mother and stepfather are both libertarian-leaning. My biological father is an ultraconservative overall except he distrusts megacorporations.

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My mom will vote based on Catholic newsletters.

My dad will likely vote based on FOX News.

Mom is a conservative evangelical, Dads a moderate who goes between both parties, one brother is an economic libertarian and a social liberal, another brother is a communist, I'm the right wing neocon, and the remainder are all non political. My extended family is 80% liberal, 20% non political.

So I guess, as the only aspie in my immediate and extended family, I am the only right wing neocon. Even mom won't vote for any conservative unless he is a church-going evangelical type, and is only animated by social issues that animate other conservative evangelicals.

I'm pretty sure some of my family members are Republican like I am.

My parents have always been pretty big on third party politics but less so in the last couple elections. Perot, Buchanan, Nader. My dad adored Jesse Ventura and is kind of big about conspiracy theories especially those ones in the 90s about Vince Foster/Bill Clinton.(oddly enough not interested in the Obama ones) It's sort of hard to pin them down ideologically but I think they've been trending my way since recently. I do believe they voted GOP the last 2 elections however, not sure what they'll do this time. Rest of my extended family are mostly blue collar union democrats with a couple exceptions.

Father = right wing gun nut.

Mother= no clue.

I have no idea. As far as I know, for at least as long as I've been alive, they've never voted.

We are all unambiguously, capital-L, Liberals.

Some of us have occasionally voted NDP--usually because one of us knows the candidate personally, or in one case, because the Liberal candidate was a complete nut job. Since moving to BC, I have voted NDP provincially, because the Liberal party here is not at all the same thing as the federal Liberal party.

So far as I am aware, none of us have ever voted Conservative.

My parents are moderately liberal.

Relatives on my mother's side are part of the "Dutch Reformed" community which is quite conservative both socially and economically. The Dutch protestants are very heavy on the "protestant work ethic". Also, in the Calvinist tradition there is a reputation for holding the belief that you are the "elect" as an excuse for being a dour stingy douchebag. Relatives on my father's side are mostly Anglo middle class liberals.

Was it a big factor then, parents... having them always repeating liberal, conservative, or moderate opinions around the house... did the questions you then asked or the answers you sought based on this world view they gave you growing up affect your political persuasion?

Both paretns and my sister are active GroenLinks (left-wing liberal) members. My parents used to be part of the communist party before it was merged to form GroenLinks. My husband is moderately conservative. I used to be a socialist, and it was definitely influenced by my parents' leftist opinions, but I was a member of the Socialist Party rather than GroenLInks because the SP protested more and I liked that being a rebellious teen. Now I consider myself moderately left-wing liberal. Voted GroenLinks in the last election, but m not sure what I'll vote next time since GroenLinks is barely alive.

My dad is left leaning, Labour voting.
My mum doesn't really have a clue, Tory voter.

My family is all pretty independent, with my sister trending towards radical feminism, my brother very carefully analyzing which candidates and parties best suit his economic interests, and my mother largely voting based on which one of us makes the most convincing argument to her about our choices each cycle. I don't know that my father ever really held strong political beliefs, when he was alive I mostly remember him grousing about whatever the local talk radio show had been railing about that day (he was one of those people who couldn't stand silence and had a TV or radio on in every room he was in), but he didn't listen to the ideological stuff.

I didn't really become interested in politics at all until I moved away from my parents. I was more of a centrist with libertarian leanings but didn't think about it too much. The way conservatives acted during the Bush admin pushed me to the left and the 2008 crisis made me question the idea of capitalist meritocracy.

My parent's politics are (were) just plain nuts. No real stand on any one topic for very long and they would change without any rationale whatsoever and change back later. They were like that on anything, really.
My dad was the political (and everything else) leader of the two but was clueless just the same. As for my mother anyone can climb in her head and take control on anything political or philosophical. Just raise your voice enough and she's all yours until someone else comes along.
If anything I'd have to say they were more socially and fiscally liberal than anything.
I thought for sure my brother would be a hardcore liberal but he has pleasantly surprised me and has turned out to be a conservative.

My mum is something left-wing,
my dad is libertarian,
my stepdad is communist,
I myself am an anarchist,
my extended family I don't know about.

Overall I'd say my family is rather progressive.