(When) Did Your Political Ideology Diverge From Your Parents'?
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  (When) Did Your Political Ideology Diverge From Your Parents'?
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« on: September 20, 2012, 01:32:39 AM »

Probably around 12 or 13 when the Ron Paul campaign made me realize what a stupid idea foreign interventionism is.
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« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2012, 02:10:37 AM »

6, when I voted in the 1st grade mock election for GWB.
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« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2012, 02:16:56 AM »

6, when I voted in the 1st grade mock election for GWB.
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« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2012, 02:44:17 AM »

2006 when I really started getting involved in politics.  And over the past couple years, I've grown a fair amount apart politically.
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« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2012, 03:00:56 AM »

Not yet.
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« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2012, 03:23:15 AM »

Tough question, I won't be able to define the ideology of my parents.
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« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2012, 05:07:54 AM »

Never.
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« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2012, 05:22:03 AM »

Both my parentys shifted over the years, away from their parents. I'd kind of like to suggest that they've moved towards my politics than that I've been followed in to theirs. Obviously, they influenced my philosophy, though.

I wrote a bit of a discussion on it ages ago, over in the Essays forum.
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« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2012, 05:26:08 AM »

Up until about 2009, I was a pretty run-of-the-mill Catholic Conservative. Pro-war, Pro-life, Anti-gay marriage...that was until I started researching Ron Paul and I became a pretty softcore Libertarian. This was when I was about 13 years old. As I got older, I became more and more radical, going from small l libertarian, to a voluntaryist and, before long, a full on 'Guv'ment can't do NUFFIN rite' anarchist. That was actually pretty recent. It wasn't until about April of this year that I started to abandon anarchism and realized that my beloved Constitution does establish a form of Government. So I consider myself a Constitutionalist Libertarian Conservative. My parents, more specifically my mom, are pretty right-of-center, but certainly not Libertarian. My mom is a very big supporter of the war on terror, and my dad is an Archie Bunker type, if you catch my drift Tongue
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« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2012, 06:48:26 AM »

My parents are both pretty apolitical so it wasn't possible for me to diverge from them ideologically. The only two people who care about politics in my immediate family are myself and my brother, and we're more or less polar opposites on most issues.
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« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2012, 06:57:13 AM »

I sort of formed my own ideology, independent of my parents who I think were uncomfortable or uninterested in sharing their political views growing up.

I started having my own political views in 1993, when I was 7.
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« Reply #11 on: September 20, 2012, 07:32:18 AM »

It hasn't really....I don't really discuss politics that much with my family.
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« Reply #12 on: September 20, 2012, 12:27:13 PM »

My line of political thought broke off from those of my folks roughly eleven years ago, when I was twelve.
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« Reply #13 on: September 20, 2012, 01:36:08 PM »

A few years back, when I started to drift more to the right fiscally than them, and a tad more left socially.
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« Reply #14 on: September 20, 2012, 03:24:56 PM »

Never, except from my dad on abortion (he's Catholic).
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« Reply #15 on: September 20, 2012, 04:06:01 PM »

Around the time I was 12, although I wasn't that award of my parents' views, like that my father was fairly Republican.
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« Reply #16 on: September 20, 2012, 04:06:40 PM »

Never, except from my dad on abortion (he's Catholic).

You're 14, give it time.  Mine did not begin to diverge until I started high school.
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« Reply #17 on: September 20, 2012, 04:13:32 PM »

I unaligned from my parents generally in late 2008-2009 (maybe 2010) when I started shifting to the left, amusingly my mom has kind of joined me while my dad has shifted hard to the right.
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« Reply #18 on: September 20, 2012, 04:57:46 PM »

Started just about two years ago. I am more of a paleocon, while everyone else is a neocon.
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« Reply #19 on: September 20, 2012, 06:59:03 PM »

We're all Democrats, but I'm more left-wing (yet less hackish) than either Mom or Dad.
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« Reply #20 on: September 21, 2012, 08:36:57 AM »

My father is right-wing social democrat and I think that my mom always voted for the Greens so I'm not so far away from their beliefs. And now both are supporters of the same party as I. We had our share of fights when I was teen and more radical left.
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« Reply #21 on: September 21, 2012, 07:58:31 PM »

2007-8. We all vote Tory (my parents were previously lifelong Liberals) but I'm the only ideological conservative. My folks are Liberals who vote Tory. We do agree on certain things: namely monarchism, federalism, foreign/defence policy, capital punishment and censorship.
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« Reply #22 on: September 21, 2012, 08:09:21 PM »

I would have to say after the 2002 mid-terms, probably closer to late 2003.  I was a staunch Republican at the time having voted for Governor Bush in 2000 and Rep. Steve Largent (R) for Oklahoma Governor in 2002.  In the summer 2003, while working in Glorieta, NM I was visiting Santa Fe and stumbled upon a Howard Dean rally.  I was still adamently for Bush that summer, but when I came back to college in August 2003, my ideology started changing in support of Sen. John Kerry.  My registration was changed to Democratic in September 2006, but I voted for Kerry in 2004, Gov. Henry in 2006, Sen. Obama in 2008 and will vote for Obama again in 2012.  I think I may have voted for Lt Gov. Mary Fallin for Oklahoma Governor in 2010, but I can't remember for sure.
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« Reply #23 on: September 22, 2012, 02:25:18 AM »

When I was 10, on one issue, independance of Quebec. They are strauchly independantists, while I was strauchly federalist (through, I'm currently "meh" on that issue and don't really care).
On the other issues, we are similar.
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« Reply #24 on: September 22, 2012, 09:19:34 AM »


Whatever happened to voting for Romney? I missed that tumour in the update thread.
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