Describe the political views of your parents.

[PJ]

Mom: a working class Catholic Democrat. Pretty left-wing economically, likes to talk about how the middle class is getting screwed and other standard democratic talking points, etc. On foreign policy, generally anti-war (this comes from a hatred of George W Bush more than anything else) and pro-Palestine. Despite being a devout Catholic, she's very passionate about her opposition to "mixing religion and politics" and is pretty socially liberal as a result. Strongly feminist. She used to oppose SSM and marijuana legalization and changed her mine a couple years ago when it became popular. She's voted for every Democrat since Carter, supported Clinton in 08, and supports her now. She's told me she likes Sanders better on the issues but doesn't think he can win a GE and doesn't want to vote against the first woman president.

Dad: Also a lifelong Democrat, but very strongly environmentalist due to his line work in parks, has considered voting Green in the past but has never actually done so. He's vaguely Catholic, but a lot less so than my Mom. Other than that, he basically holds Bernie Sanders' position on every issue and even gave credence to Clinton's email "scandal" for a brief period of time.

Side notes:

*2016 is the first election my parents have supported different primary candidates (they always vote the same in the general anyway).

*I thought some of you would appreciate this: my parents watched the GOP debate on Saturday, and after being standard liberal Trump-haters, they are rooting for him over the establishment Republicans. They still won't vote for him in the general election, but they admitted they sorta like him.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Dad - Lifelong Republican, but Bush 43 completely drove him out the party. Voted for Obama both times and he'll be switching his registration to Unaffiliated to vote for Sanders.

Mom - Doesn't pay that much attention to politics, but like my dad, was a Republican most of her life but mostly supports Democrats now. More conservative than my dad, as she's more religious.

Unfortunately, this seems to be the trend as of late.

[MLM]

Bumping this.

Dad: My dad has the weirdest political views known to man. He is pretty socialist but loves Putin (seriously) and has this obsession with a Guiliani/Rice ticket. He voted SDLP when he lived in NI but now is a swing voter between Labour and the Tories, He's also very pro-EU. Is this as weird as I think or is there some logic behind it?

Mum: Pretty standard centrist.

[White Trash]

Dad: Idk

Mom: Centrist Democrat. Biggest issues are national security, education, and gun control. Strangely hawkish on foreign policy, but a bit simplistic in that regard. Said that we should've used nuclear weapons against Iraq. In favor of strict gun control, especially after Sandy Hook. Huge supporter of public education.

Gore/Bush/Obama/Obama/Trump

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Dad: IDK, Perot/Perot/???/???/Obama/Obama/Write-in?
Mom: Left-leaning independent. Showed dislike of Obama at points, and was a Christie (described him as a "different kind of Republican" circa 2015)/Sanders (actual primary vote)/Johnson (mulled a vote for him circa September)/Clinton (actual general vote) voter.

[Mr. Reactionary]

My mom does not discuss politics and never says who she voted for. The last policy issue I heard her talk about was her unease with Obama's military cuts. Obamacare also destroyed my family's health plan multiple times so she is also vocally critical of that. She refused to vote in 2016.

My dad is pretty small l libertarian and has a fascinating voting history for president: Wallace, McGovern, Carter, Carter, John Glenn, Sam Nunn, Perot, Perot, Gore, Kerry, Obama, Romney, Gary Johnson. Needless to say I got my initial distrust in parties and support for voting my conscience from him.

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

My mother is generally hates all political parties, she's slightly center-right on both the economy and social issues in a moderate compassionate conservative sort of way.

My father is between a classical liberalist and centrist, on some issues he has some moderate right wing issues, while on others he's more leftist. He dislikes statist economies, but also distrusts private corporations. He has no loyalty to any political party or politician (he generally votes for centrists, progressives, right-wingers, while excluding the far-left and populists)

They are both generally pro-immigration and support a medium-sized welfare state

[fhtagn]

My mom is a super Dem. Pretty much backs any establishment Dem politician, regardless of major flaws presented about said person (incredibly frustrating during the election when talking about HRC, for example). The only Dem to my knowledge, and that she has actually said she doesn't like is Mark Warner. Her heart is in the right place, and I can agree with her on some issues, but I try and avoid politics around her for this reason. It's really weird because my grandparents are super Republican (my grandpa especially), and we are from Alaska.

My dad and I aren't close, so it's hard to say what his political views are. Overall, I don't think my dad actually cares enough about politics/is informed enough to have a real opinion.

[RaphaelDLG]

Dad:  Mostly standard conservative, always votes Republican.  Businessman, ordained Catholic minister, former military officer. Dislikes Obamacare, socially conservative (religious) and opposed to abortion but fairly indifferent to things like the bathroom bill, opposed to taxes, in favor of business, not in favor of entitlements, somewhat critical of interventionism, on a "buy in america" crusade as of late, so probably dislikes trade agreements, but otherwise very pro-business.

Mom:  Republican, very religious, i feel like abortion is the #1 issue, sympathetic to mexican immigrants, less politically opinionated and mostly turned off by politics.

[Crumpets]

My mom is pretty close to me politically, although I think she's a bit more in the "bleeding heart liberal" wing of the party, getting involved in lots of causes and posting lots of stories of injustice on Facebook. She's big on feminism, very anti-Netanyahu, and increasingly anti-socialist, but certainly not a "free-marketer." I'm pretty sure she has never voted for a Republican for president. She hates Ronald Reagan and loves Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and Justin Trudeau.

My dad is in the interesting group voters who is a middle-aged, white male without a college degree who was staunchly anti-Trump and pro-Hillary. He moves around the political spectrum a bit more than my mom, voting Republican until either 1988 or 1992 and Democrat since then. He liked Howard Dean a lot in 2004, and supported Hillary in 2008 and 2016. Part of it comes from being raised in a fairly Catholic household, but gradually moving away from religion entirely, and having both a dad and two brothers who were in the navy. I think his politics are particularly interesting as basically the entire rest of his family, apart from a few of my cousins, are massive Paul-turned-Trump supporters, who love to post about how marijuana cures cancer, and how some doctor in Tibet has found a bath salt that makes you immortal, but the international elite is trying to keep it a secret. Meanwhile, my dad's biggest political issue, if he has one, is science and science funding, and keeping religion out of schools.

[TDAS04]

Mom is generally far left, more liberal than me.  She's extremely pro-environment.  Overall she doesn't enjoy politics as much, and tries sometimes to avoid news, especially now with all the bad news of the Trump administration.  (Actually, I've also become that way a little bit since the Trump victory; it's pretty distressing).

Dad is more conservative than me, but still left-of-center politically.  Even though he's a doctor, he's outspoken in his support for universal health care.  On the other hand, he's pretty pro-death penalty and more hawkish on foreign policy.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     My dad is deceased. My mom is a moderate Democrat. She started out as a radical in the 1960s, but her work in criminal prosecution and defense led her to adopt more right-wing views across the board. She's pro-life and strongly supports securing the borders and cracking down on illegal immigration. Much like me, her views are less defined by support for anyone and more defined by opposition to certain movements that she dislikes.

     She seems to have been moving more to the right lately, and probably has more of a place in the Republican Party at this point. She started off supporting Clinton to see the first female President, but became aggressively critical of Clinton over the course of the campaign. After a long time vacillating she voted for Trump. Actually, the last Dem she voted for for President was Al Gore.

[OneJ]

They both vote democratic (well that was easy).

[Tender Branson]

Dad: dead (used to be a blue-dog Social Democrat, voted for Haider later on)

Mum: Voted for Hofer 3 times, but is very fond of Sebastian Kurz.

[Maxwell]

re-upping this

Dad: fallen back into the routine of defending the Republican President even when he disagrees with him. Shifting from Libertarian to vaguely alt-right.

Mom: deeply anti-Trump middle class Democrat, vaguely New Democrat on most issues but liked Bernie Sanders more than Hillary Clinton.

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

Liberal, Sandersite. Anti-SJW.

[Confused Democrat]

Dad is a Trumpist, Mom dgaf.

[America Needs R'hllor]

Well, quite complicated.

Father- the best way to describe him would be majorly anti-Putin, who voted Labour ever since he immigrated to Israel and is center-left. He's a working-class, low middle-income voter though, and if the left took power and our economic situation remained quite problematic would not hesitate to turn on them. So I guess socially moderate, economically populist.
Mother- a not very political centrist, who can be easily swayed one way or another but disliked Netanyahu. Voted for centrist parties like Kadima and Yesh Atid most of her time here, and Zionist Union in the last elections thanks to heavy advocating from me (and Lapid's disappointing performance as Finance Minister).

[Blair]

Both my parents vote, but they're not political at all. They have views on individual issues, but they don't really care about politics.

Dad- Standard Teacher, in that he hates his union but has always voted Labour bar voting Liberal Democrat for Mayor in 2008 and 2012.

Mum- More left wing that my dad (her parents were communist party members) Has always voted Labour, bar voting for Red Ken in 2000 when he ran as an independent. Very anti-monarchy.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Both Labor party voters.

My mother taught me never to tell people who you vote for.

[Mr. Smith]

Dad's a liberal, straight Democratic since McGovern.

Ma never came off to me as all that political ever, though she did vote...but now, she doesn't even have the capacity to know basic neighbor's names...let alone current events. 

[publicunofficial]

Mom: Secretary. Strong progressive on social issues but very understated and doesn't like to talk politics. Was surprised by how much she liked Bernie Sanders.

Dad: Died in 2015, was a construction worker. Leaned Democrat, hated Bush and didn't like Reagan, but occasionally watched Fox News because he "Liked to hear both sides of the argument" but overall didn't talk about politics much. More socially conservative than my mom, slightly homophobic.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Dad: Doesn't really have an ideology, but I guess he leans to the right.  He is pro-life and traditional on issues of gender and sexuality (and presumably doesn't like paying taxes too much), but he isn't very political and tends to vote on the personality of the candidates.  LOVES TRUMP and predicted he would win in the summer of 2015.  His girlfriend is traditionally conservative and pro-Trump.

Mom: Anti-union, semi-moderate on economic issues, liberal .  On social issues, she is liberal except on marijuana and transgenderism.  Voted for Hillary in the primary and general.  Her husband is the stereotypical elitist Republican who voted for Hillary in 2016.

Grandparents:

Dad's parents: Traditional conservative Republicans, both voted Trump in November, but my grandfather would have preferred a different nominee.

Mom's mom: Southern Democrat, very personally conservative and active in the church, but votes Democrat most of the time.  Voted (surprisingly) Sanders in the primary and was skeptical about Clinton in the general, but may have come around to vote for her (or may have gone Johnson, not sure).  Does not like Trump.

Mom's dad: Died in 2015, a small-business owning straight ticket Republican voter.

[Sven]

Dad: So far-right he could wave at the Left from his back porch. Hates literally everyone in office except Cruz, Lee, and Paul Jr., so he might best be classed a paleocon. Either that or just a misanthrope.

Mom: Retired hippie, Californian transplant, Sanders supporter, loathes Trump. Why fate decided to lead her here, of all places, I have absolutely no idea.

As you can imagine, politics has never exactly been discussed much at the dinner table.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Father: Church organist who came from a large Catholic family torn apart (a bit exaggerated here) by debates of the Vietnam Era. Despite his hippie sisters and his late brother, he ended up being a fairly boilerplate Catholic conservative Republican. He was fairly critical of what was then contemporary culture and entertainment, was staunchly opposed to abortion, and so on. He was the only one of his siblings who took politically after his own father. He did exhibit some of what we'd call, academically, "paleo-conservatism"--being suspicious of somehow converting the world to democracy--but was overall a fairly standard Republican outside of, say, the arts (he worked in theater and occasionally taught at Wayne Sate). Even then, his style was very traditional.

Mother: public school music teacher much of her life, outside of union/urban issues, she remains fairly conservative and voted for Trump. She had some... outlandish views one would expect from a consumer of modern right-wing news. Her general attitudes toward Clinton, Obama, etc. can somewhat illustrate the specifics of the modern day Republican mindset. In terms of parenting style, while my dad was more conservative on media issues, my mother was more concerned with safety.