Do you share your parent's political values?

[Sikander]

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.

[Wernazuma III]

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

[Dinner]

My parents were both moderates and so am I.

[DRoseDARs]

Didn't vote; none of the options fit (other than banana )

Stepdad - Registered Republican, votes Republican (as far as I know)
Mom - Registered Republican, votes Democrat (seeks to undermine Republicans by the vote)
Me - Registered Democrat, votes largely Democrat, Green when available (I strongly believe having a multi-party system would solve or at least minimize many problems in our system, forcing more compromise between extremes), and not above voting Republican if I feel the candidate is qualified

[ajbera]

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.

[Az]

My mother is a theist liberal capitalist, with centrist views on the conflict with the arabs, while my father is an atheist, a hardcore socialist, but also slightly sexist and very homophobic, ( typical product of the soviet system ) and currently experiencing some problems with his ideology vis a vis the arabs.

So I guess you could say that I share my parent's political views, but since they span pretty much the entire spectrum, it doesn't say jack.

I took the best parts.

[Wernazuma III]

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.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Az
currently experiencing some problems with his ideology vis a vis the arabs.

Would you mind to explain this in more detail (You can also PM me)?
This seems interesting and might help me understand today's Israel better.

[BeBMan]

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

[Az]

Would you mind to explain this in more detail (You can also PM me)?

My father is hardly representative of anything in today's Israeli society, but the geopolitical ideological left in this country is in shambles, really. A small but vocal group of people who are delusional, imho , who would blame our government for anything, really, and a large part of people who are not sure what to do, really - this is how I see today's left. A lot of people are saying to themselves - even after we left lebanon, we were attacked, and even after we waged the justest war possible, people around the world are supporting the other side. wtf?

After Gaza ( the withdrawal, and the subsequent rise of hamas and continuation of attacks from there ), people didn't find it as dire. Even after the first attack and capture of a soldier there, it wasn't that clear, but the war in Lebanon was really a mindchanging experience.

There are some politicians that are calling for a stepping up of the negotiations to peace with Syria over this ( including Peretz) but I don't think this is really catching up with the center left public.

The plan to leave the west bank is dead, pretty much. The public sees the withdrawals as a semi-mistake ( not really accepting it as a mistake, because that would mean that most of us would have to accept the fact that they were wrong, but saying that we shouldn't do this sort of thing )

to make a long story short, I see a a society reeling from a worldwide humiliation ( but not seeing Hizbullah as the cause, rather as nothing more than the thing that exposed facts that we didn't want to know about ourselves and the world ). But sadly, I currently don't see a leadership that would channel that insult by the world into a place of success and improvement. Except a couple on the right side of the spectrum....

[Drogue]

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.

[C0ckney]

my parents are both typical working class labour voters, but with some very socially right wing views.

i like to think i believe in freedom, both economic and social. my view of the main british parties is that the conservatives want to run my life, the lib dems want to rob me blind and labour wants to do both (and has been doing so for the last 9 years). i guess that would almost make a libertarian, but then again i don't believe in mass immigration and am very euro-sceptic, which is something i share with my father.

[Meticulous Man]

No idea. We don't discuss "politics" much and in case voting behavior is supposed to be used here as an indicator of political values, then those of my parents - at first sight - give the impression of being incoherent and messy to the degree that it's useless to try to examine them in any way.

Edit: Kind of like Wernazuma's parents.

[Lorizael]

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)

[Stuie]

Re: Do you share your parent's political values?

Originally posted by ajbera
It's been said that the greatest predictor of your politics are those of your parents. It's one of the reasons why conservatism won't be going out of style anytime soon, since they're having more kids than the liberals....

I'm happy to say I'm raising four liberal atheists. Just doing my part to help maintain some balance.

My parents were right-leaning moderates; I would be considered a "liberal" if you must label me.