Are you more Liberal or Conservative then your parents and grandparents

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Dad

Economics: Same (both very conservatarian on economics)
Foreign Policy: He's more hawkish as I'm the Paulite
Social Issues: Same

Mom
Economics: doesn't care
Foreign Policy: Pro Hillary but very dovish
Social: doesn't care

Grandma (Dads mom and the source of my civil libertarian bent)
Economics: Ever the FDR girl
Foreign Policy: likely somewhere between me and Dad
Social: Same as me (conservative on moral issues and moderate to liberal on racial issues)

Grandpa
Economics: see dad and I
Foreign Policy: Served under IKE at the end of WW2
Social: likely same as everyone but mom

[DS0816]

More liberal than my dad, more conservative than my mom, way more conservative than my grandparents.

Re: Why are you a Democrat?

^Incorrect and pointless conjecture!

TNvolunteer,

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Given the fact that maxheem has an avatar which indicates that he/she self-identifies as a Democrat, my question is not conjecture but is simply a question.

I believe maxheem doesn't need your assistance, TNvolunteer, to answer for himself/herself.



To repeat:



maxheem,

Why are you a Democrat?

[SWE]

Maternal Grandparents: Democrats, but I don't know any specifics beyond that

Paternal Grandparents: Don't know

Mother: Liberal Democrat

Father: Republican, but thinks the party's drifted too far right over the past few years and voted for Obama twice

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

I'm somewhat more conservative than both my parents (mother is socially conservative & fiscally liberal [like a Mung Beans or MormDem]) while father is socially liberal and fiscally conservative [likes Mitt Romney a lot], but more liberal than my grandparents, who are basically all tea party GOPers.

Wow, discussions about the Ukrainian conflict must get pretty tense in your household!

[VPH]

Mom
Social: I'm probably slightly more liberal (abortion being the big issue)
Foreign: About the same
Economic: About the same

Dad
Social: More liberal especially in terms of criminal justice issues
Foreign: My dad's a foreign policy hawk
Economic: More liberal, he's centrist to centre left on this

Maternal Grandmother
Social: About the same
Foreign: Probably more hawkish than her
Economic: About the same, my grandma's always railed out against inequality, even when working in a factory in Portugal at age 14

Maternal Grandfather
Social: More liberal
Foreign: About the same
Economic: More liberal

Paternal Grandfather
Social: MUCH more liberal, especially on race and immigration
Foreign: MUCH more liberal; he looks fondly on the colonial days
Economic: More liberal

Paternal Grandmother
Social: MUCH more liberal, especially on race, immigration, and gay rights
Foreign: Slightly more liberal
Economic: Slightly more liberal

[Clark Kent]

My grandparents live in India, and I don't know anything about their politics.

Anyways:

Both of my parents are independents.

My dad is pretty libertarian, except that he supports ObamaCare pretty much completely. He also works at Aetna.

My mom votes Democratic, but she seems more like a Nixonian Republican to me.

I'm personally a moderate-conservative Republican (moderate on social and foreign policy, laissez-faire economically).

[Bigby]

Parents:

Mother: I'm more fiscally conservative than her, but she is far more socially conservative than me. The only reason she is still a registered Democrat is because "the South has always been Democrat." She voted for McCain and Romney, though.
Father: I'm slightly more fiscally conservative, but I am moderately more socially liberal than him. He votes Republican nearly all the time for President and is a tossup for state and local elections.

Maternal Grandparents:

Grandfather: I can't say how he'd be now as he's dead, but he was a Neal Deal Democrat who was a bigwig in the Georgia Democratic machine. He also worked for Jimmy Carter.
Grandmother: Ditto for my Grandfather. She supported his views.

Paternal Grandparents:

Grandfather: He's too senile to care much. He does support abolishing the IRS and replacing it with a national sales tax, though.
Grandmother: I only know her recent views. She was a Trump supporter until the debate.

[DC Al Fine]

Wife
Fiscally to the right, about the same socially

Parents
Equidistant between them. My mom is somewhat to the left of me, and my dad to the right.

Maternal Grandparents
Fiscally same, socially well to the right. They are the quintessential WASPs

Paternal Grandparents
Fiscally to the right, socially the same. They are the quintessential unionized working class socons.

[RogueBeaver]

Far more conservative.

[Murica!]

Mom

Social: More libertarian due to my opposition to the death penalty.
Economic: She's an Individualist Anarchist so quite a bit to the left.
Foreign Policy: Pretty much the same.

Grand Mother

Social: She's quite a bit(Read as "A lot more") more conservative by being less pro-choice and willing to ban some forms of speech, though she doesn't really mind SSM.
Economic: She supports a fully state planned economy, so I'm significantly to the left.
Foreign Policy: Pretty much the same.

I don't really know my Father's side but from what I could tell he's pretty liberal, and his mother is basically a hardcore Stalinist.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

More conservative than my mom, but more liberal than my grandma.

[Goldwater]

It feels utterly bizarre to think of people regularly discussing politics with their grandparents. All I know about the political affiliations of my grandparents on my dad's side is that they were big Republicans a while back, with a few Need Nixon Now and WIN buttons scattered around their house. I have no idea what they think now. The only political stance my grandfather on my mom's side has ever mentioned is that the new eye doctor in town, that Randal guy, is a real nutter.

My grandfather is the one that does all of the discussing.

[RFayette]

It feels utterly bizarre to think of people regularly discussing politics with their grandparents. All I know about the political affiliations of my grandparents on my dad's side is that they were big Republicans a while back, with a few Need Nixon Now and WIN buttons scattered around their house. I have no idea what they think now. The only political stance my grandfather on my mom's side has ever mentioned is that the new eye doctor in town, that Randal guy, is a real nutter.

My grandfather is the one that does all of the discussing.

Ditto.  I never bring up politics with them, but they do bring it up sometimes.     

[mvd10]

Dad:

Economic issues: Way more conservative
Social and religious issues: Around the same, maybe slightly more conservative
Foreign policy issues: More conservative

Mother:

Economic issues: More conservative
Social and religious issues: More liberal
Foreign policy issues: More conservative

[OSR stands with Israel]

It feels utterly bizarre to think of people regularly discussing politics with their grandparents. All I know about the political affiliations of my grandparents on my dad's side is that they were big Republicans a while back, with a few Need Nixon Now and WIN buttons scattered around their house. I have no idea what they think now. The only political stance my grandfather on my mom's side has ever mentioned is that the new eye doctor in town, that Randal guy, is a real nutter.

Well I never discuss politics with my grandparents but I could tell what their views were when my dad discusses it with my grandfather as he criticized Republicans a lot while my dad defended them.

[Abraham Reagan]

Mother: Far more conservative. She's a total bleeding heart liberal who thinks that gun owners are lacking in certain physical "traits", Columbus day should be called "Indigenous slaughter day", and that Bernie Sanders is the best thing since sliced bread. We lovingly argue, to this day.

Father: More Conservative. He's definitely a liberal, but much less than my mother. He thinks that the GOP is the "party of fear", however he's a strong believer in gun rights, is very anti-PC, and thinks that the BLM movement is a joke.

Maternal Grandparents: Equally conservative (probably). Sadly, both passed over 10 years ago, but I've asked my mother about their leanings and have learned a few things. Both were pretty religious southerners and had many of the views that those things entail. They both actively supported Nixon and Reagan and even took my mom to a Nixon parade in '68. After Reagan, their political involvement died down but they still always voted for GOP candidates in elections.

Paternal Grandparents: More conservative (especially with Grandmother). I can't really speculate about my paternal grandpappy considering that he passed away before I was born, but my grandmother, who is still kickin', is about as liberal as they come. She was born in NYC to wealthy parents and spent most of her childhood in Switzerland. She was very active in Anti-Vietnam war protests in the 60's and even took my dad and uncle, who were kids at the time, to these protests. She feels very strongly about issues like welfare, healthcare and voter ID and wants Sanders for President also.

[Intell]

Mom (US)

She's essential a religious communitarian, who believes society and region should mix together. She's deeply socially conservative, opposes interracial marriage, in the past opposed love marriage, anti-drugs, pro-prohibition, anti-same sex marriage, anti civil unions and opposes Islam and the Jewish conspiracy of Zionism, so she has racist tendencies, she's was also anti-christian because of christian trying to convert people in India and Nepal, though lving in a christian nation, she changed her mind. She's also fiercely anti-gun and says that all guns should be confiscated, she's a pacifist and opposes war at all costs and supports diplomacy with nearly every country.

On Economics, she wants to cut down on welfare on those that are unemployed, raise taxes on the rich, hate private entities, wants to ban insurance companies and have it controlled by the government. She's fiercely anti-rich and once said, if there's one thing the communist were good at it's at killing the greedy rich people, I think she was joking though with my mum you never know. She's also pro free trade, pro Obama care and pro raising the minimum wage.

Economics: She's all over the map but on rhetoric and hate for rich people and big business, she's definitely to the left of me.
Social: Since she support a Hindu republic theocracy, it's safe to assume she's right of me.
Foreign Policy:  A pacifist, so left of me, but it really isn't a left-right divide.

I think she always votes democrat and supports Webb.

Dad (US)

He's essentially a pro-capitalist,quite liberal democrat. He's engaged in the stock market and fiercely pro-free/fair trade. He's religious, though secular and he supports SSM, drug legislation and civil liberties, yet pro-life. He's a moderate, pro-universal healthcare, capitalist independent democrat.

Economics: Definitely to the right of me
Social Issues: More libertarian though same on cultural issues
Foreign Policy: As he's an internationalist and supports intervention in the middle east and diplomacy he's like me, though a tad more hawkish.

Parternal Grandfather (Nepal)

Marxist Communist in a rural area in Nepal, I went to there village and the government and operating system is controlled by communists and works that. people give there money to their place and the government provides everything for you, including free food at a government place

Economics: Way to the left of me
Social: Right of Me
Foreign Policy: Isolationist, from what I gather though this isn't an issue in Nepal.

Partenal Grandmother (Nepal)

Marxist Communist though she's fierily nationalist and has nativist tendencies.

Economics: Way to the left of me
Social: Right of me (Hates Social Issues, as issue to divide the people)
Foreign Policy: Isolationist, same as my grandfather

Martenal Grandfather (India)

Moderate INC secular though socially conservative voter, don't know much

Economics: Right of me
Social Issues: A tad to the left
Foreign Policy: Internationalist, so same

Marternal Grandmother (India)

Same as my grandfather, the only difference is that she's more deeply religious and more conservative and pacifist, she's anti same-sex marriage and anti interracial marriage from what I gather, also nationalistic.

Economics: Right of me
Social Issues: Right of Me
Foreign Policy: Pacifist, so left of me

Martenal: Great-Grandmother from grandmother's side (India)

She a nationalistic socialist, (not Nazism) culturally conservative INC voter.

Economics: She's left of me, from what my grandparents have told me.
Social: Right of me
Foreign Policy: Un-Known

Martenal: Great-Grandmother from my grandfather's side (India)

An INC voter.

Economics: Right of me, I guess
Social: Right of me, I guess
Foreign Policy: Unknown


Don't know my great-grand parents and my one great-great grand parent from my dad's side.

Probably shouldn't know this much, but I'm interested in politics, so I ask and sometimes they get angry with my relatively liberal values, comparatively to them.

[anvi]

Hmm...interesting  I have no idea what my grandparents' political beliefs were.  Three of them were gone before I was born and the last died before I was ten, and I never talked to him about politics.  They were also all immigrants, on one side German immigrants from Russia and on the other German immigrants from Romania.  They were all farmers.  I wish there were some way to learn these beliefs of theirs, but there isn't anymore.

I'm to the left of where my dad was when it comes to social ideas, in some ways, though he had a libertarian streak too.  Not sure where he was fiscally.  I'm probably a little to the right of my mom in terms of fiscal issues, but to the left of her on social stuff.

I guess knowing who my parents were still explains a lot about me.

[Torie]

Oh, with grandparents, it is hard to compare. The issues were so different. What was a common denominator was anti-Catholicism. That was a mainstream bourgeoisie WASP attitude. Anyway, I view the world through a lens that is remarkably similar to my Dad's - as a centrist moderate Pub. I was the last Pub left in my clan. Everybody else is now a Dem. The secular Yankee tribe has moved heavily away from the Pub party, and it's reflected in my clan.

[Blair]

Well I'm more right wing that my mum's parents-both of them were devout socialists who loved Tony Benn and supported the communist/Trotsky party in the 50's. My dad's parents were both liberal/tories who were lived and worked with people who'd never vote for Labour-my grandma goes on about how socialism is awful and there's too much mass migration yet she claims to love the old Liberal Party.

My parents aren't political at all but they're both left wing life long labour voters. However they're both quite anti-immigration

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Way more socially liberal/libertarian (take your pick) and more conservative fiscally and probably more hawkish.

[Crumpets]

Mom
Socially: I'm probably to her left, but only by a bit.
Fiscally: We're about the same.
Foreign policy: I'm more of a realist, and she's more of an idealist, but otherwise about the same.

Dad
Socially: We're pretty close, but I think I'm farther left.
Fiscally: About the same.
Foreign policy: About the same.

Maternal grandparents
Socially: I'm to the left, but they're probably both in the 99th percentile for most socially liberal in their age bracket.
Fiscally: Both were kids during FDR, so they're pretty far left. I'm probably to their right, but it's close.
Foreign policy: They're both pretty much pacifists, so I'm more hawkish.

Paternal grandparents
Socially: Not really sure what their views were, but I'm probably to their left. My grandma was pretty Catholic.
Fiscally: I'm probably slightly to their right, but I'm not sure.
Foreign policy: My grandpa was in the military, but was staunchly opposed to the Iraq War. On balance, we're probably about the same.

[Holmes]

It's harder to say for everyone else because they don't exactly have coherent, well-considered political beliefs.

Canadian voters.

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My father is a very, very, very moderate business Republican who I have successfully convinced to vote for Sanders next year. My mom is also a registered Republican, but she's completely apathetic to everything political and is probably around as moderate as my father (if not more so). They have both expressed a desire to re-register as Independents.

I'm pretty sure my paternal grandfather was some sort of Rockefeller Republican (he was very politically active locally and even ran for mayor once), but from what I recall, my paternal grandmother was a pretty generic NY/NJ Jew (and hence, obviously, a Democrat).

I'm not really sure about my maternal grandparents, but my best guess (based off of their religion, geopolitical area, and personality) is that they were both fairly apathetic liberals (possibly socialist, many Jews are). I'm not sure how they registered, though (the GOP was much less conservative back when they were alive, obviously).

So I'm more liberal than my parents and at least one of my grandparents; not sure about the others.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

More conservative than my mother, but definitely more liberal than my grandmother.