Do you share your parent's political values?

[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, and will pass on those values to the next generation, whereas libs have to wait for people to get uppity about being poor and disenfranchised.

Looking at my own parents, I realize that I did basically wind up with similar values. They are pretty moderate, with some conservative leanings mingled with some delightfully liberal and libertarian streaks. They were never strong church-goers, and though my Mom shakes her head at my agnosticism, she doesn't give me grief about it. She's a Republican, though not fervently so, but she brought me and my sis to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show when I was ten years old. An interesting mix all 'round.

Although my parents and I still have political disagreements, we are sympatico more often than not. How true is that of my fellow Polytubbies?

[Dis]

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.

[duke o' york]

Well my parents are very mild conservatives, and I'm more left-wing (still, even after growing up and entering the real world), so as far as British politics are concerned, I'm a liberal. Therefore.... I didn't vote.

[Hueij]

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

[Spiffor]

I share few of my mother's political values: Commitment to democracy and respect of human dignity are big underlying ideals we have in common, but they can lead to quite different POVs when it comes to daily politics.

My father transmitted a strong ability to think critically, and to be fairly independent of dogmas. However, he never involved himself as far in politics as I did, and I think he's the one who eventually came to resemble me

[VetLegion]

No.

[Elok]

More or less. My parents are Democrats. I lean more towards moderate, mostly because the Democratic party is really frigging hopeless. I also don't care for their psychotic insistence on Roe v. Wade, but that's not a huge deal.

[DinoDoc]

I seem to be the lone Republican in my family.

[Heresson]

Both my parents used to belong to Solidarity. My mother belongs to no party, although she's a member of a left-wing teachers' union, which is always allied with post-communists. She, however, always voted centrum/liberals.
My father is a strange guy and he is a member of a party that completely does not fit the region we live in. I guess he's a member of it only because it was created in his hometown which he loves so much. We live in the most urbanised region in Poland, and in the biggest aglomeration of Poland, and it's kind of rural-areas party. It has both right and left wing, though the right wingers recently seceded. I used to hate this party, until another rural party was created, much, much, much worse than that (Lepper...).

[SlowwHand]

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.

[Winston]

Do you share your parent's political values?

I'd say yes. I might be a tad more conservative about certain things.

Everything is proceeding according to plan.

[chequita guevara]

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.

[notyoueither]

Politics around here are not as simple as Liberal and Conservative.

[Odin]

Both my parents are Labor Dems

[Datajack Franit]

My mother is a Berlusconi-conservative while my father is a Communist. My mother also comes from a former communist block country and abhors communism and Islam. I´m a very open minded conservative, that´s why I decided to move and study in the most liberal region of Italy (Emilia)