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DarkSteven -> A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 5:16:51 PM)

All right I lied.  TWO questions.

Do you consider yourself to be liberal or conservative, and what were your parents' viewpoints as you were growing up?

I'll go first.

I consider myself a con (although I'm probably moderate), and my parents were very liberal as I grew up.



MissAsylum -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 6:39:44 PM)

i'm a centrist- would you want my input?



Arpig -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 6:46:13 PM)

I am a Socialist, my father is a life-long Liberal (very left by US standards) and my mother is a Conservative (right-leaning centrist by US standards).



juliaoceania -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 6:51:39 PM)

I am considered a liberal and both of my parents were liberal and I only involve myself romantically with liberals...

My son is a liberal also


There is only one conservative in my family. He is a fundamentalist also, many ask me "what happened to him when he was little, was he dropped on his head or something?" I just shake my head and say " We don't know"[:D]



littlewonder -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 6:56:51 PM)

middle of the road

my father was a liberalist
mother...neither. I'm not sure she even understands the terms.



TheHeretic -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 6:59:42 PM)

Mommy was a commie. I've told that story.

Are you looking to validate the "politics are inherited" school of thought? If you want to take just the genetics, then my father is a capital "R" republican.



KatyLied -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 6:59:43 PM)

Liberal, very liberal on social issues.

Parents are conservative, my dad watches Fox and thinks it is all the truth.  Needless to say, we do not talk politics.  I am the most liberal member in the family of my birth.



DarkSteven -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 7:00:58 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: MissAsylum

i'm a centrist- would you want my input?


Sure.  I'm just trying to get a feel for whether we are more right or left than our parents were.



KatyLied -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 7:02:21 PM)

Are you aware that there is data supporting that, in general, people become more conservative as they age.  There was an interesting article on it over at OKCupid



TheHeretic -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 7:06:49 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: DarkSteven
I'm just trying to get a feel for whether we are more right or left than our parents were.


Put me down for well to the left on social issues, and far to the right fiscally, then.



juliaoceania -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 7:13:28 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: TheHeretic


quote:

ORIGINAL: DarkSteven
I'm just trying to get a feel for whether we are more right or left than our parents were.


Put me down for well to the left on social issues, and far to the right fiscally, then.


So basically you split the difference between your parents....



kdsub -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 7:21:50 PM)

I refuse to label myself...I'll let others label me as they please. My mother and father voted mostly Republican...dad was a member of the local Republican club...They only asked me to vote, they never tried to influence me.

Butch



BitaTruble -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 7:25:04 PM)

The mother is die hard Republican and moving towards fundie. Dad is die hard Democrat and got arrested last year for being a little too liberal. ::sigh:: The are both in their mid 70's and about as opposite as opposite gets (probably why they divorced when I was only two) and I fall pretty much in between leaning just slightly left on the majority of issues and slightly right on a few issues with some notable exceptions - I'm pro-choice (choose to give birth or not.. choose whom you want to marry regardless of gender etc.) and, like most Texans, I'm also hard core pro-gun and 2nd ammendment. Politically, I was most heavily influenced by my grandparents though.. both fairly conservative but not in the extreme. I guess I would call myself socially liberal, mostly fiscally conservative but just a smidge of socialist since I believe in funding things like schools, roads and health care to a point. I like sensible rules and don't care about big or small government as long as it's good government.



DarwinsLilHelper -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 7:44:23 PM)

Was it P.J. O'Rourke who once said "A Libertarian is a conservative that still gets high."?

Lets put it this way. I'm an old school libertarian that thinks Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan are barking conservative moonbats, trying to subvert Libertarianism into some sort of tea drinking, backwoods, trailer park Nazi party.

I also think that our children are going to live in a United States thats a third world shit hole twenty years from now because of Obama's "Bread and Circuses" bail outs and yearly stimulus packages.



TheHeretic -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 7:58:52 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
So basically you split the difference between your parents....



No. You're supposed to be a grad student, and you can't comprehend a simple sentence?

Try again.



Musicmystery -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 8:11:58 PM)

quote:

I'm just trying to get a feel for whether we are more right or left than our parents were.

Put that way, I'm more left.



MissAsylum -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 8:41:53 PM)

well since i'm a centrist- i'm moreso right down the middle, which bothers my parents quite a bit. they are both democratic, both in voting and ideals. i strongly doubt that they even bother to hear the republican side of the situation, whereas i make it a point to hear everything that each side has to present. the only place where this might not apply if a minority is running like our most recent presidental election. not that i have a problem with favouring the minorities(female, gay, race, etc), but i do not let that cloud the issues, which is what i fear may be going on with my parents. i was pretty much shunned from family discussion because i had considered voting for McCain(before he chose Palin as his running mate- no need to delve any deeper into that), rather than Obama simply because he is black. So i suppose i'm more tolerant than my parents.



juliaoceania -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 8:45:41 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: TheHeretic


quote:

ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
So basically you split the difference between your parents....



No. You're supposed to be a grad student, and you can't comprehend a simple sentence?

Try again.


You supposedly have a sense of humor... my bad



tazzygirl -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/10/2010 9:00:36 PM)

My parents, very liberal, depending on the issue.

Me, liberal with many leanings towards conservative, again, depending on the issue.



Elisabella -> RE: A question for liberals and conservatives. (6/11/2010 12:03:04 AM)

-FR-

My mom is a Democrat and my dad is a Socialist (like, Socialist Party idealist, not just socialist) and idk wtf I am. I haven't figured it out yet.

I think a lot of people my parents' age are more liberal than their parents and a lot of people my age are more conservative than their parents. But at the same time what defines "liberal" tends to evolve, something like gay marriage or legal pot would have been insanely liberal in my parents day but to people my age it seems fairly moderate.



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