Were your parents liberal or conservative?

[Quixote1818]

Poll question: Were your parents liberal or conservative?

[renate]

1. I couldn't decide between Kennedy and Kucinich

I am truly blessed.

[Is It Fascism Yet]

3. yes you are, and i hope it continues to run in the family! n/t

[Is It Fascism Yet]

2. I had one of each, sort of like Tom Delay married to Hillary Clinton n/t

[Piperay]

4. My parents were moderate repubs, then

they became hardcore Democrats!:bounce: :woohoo: :applause:

[FreedomAngel82]

38. With my parents

my mom used to be a republican but now she's no longer one. I don't think she's a self-proclaimed democrat like me though. My dad is a republican but he's not insane or anything. Hell I even got him to watch the Daily show.

[sojourner]

5. those categories don't work for me!

My folks were Democrats/Independents but dad was a libertarian, a hunter and a believer in the right to bear arms. He was something of a racist although he didn't walk his talk. He didn't mind that the government helped the poor - heck, we WERE poor and we helped others as a matter of course, and race was not a factor in how we treated anyone.

They liked Bobby Kennedy. Dad was really upset when he was killed. But he also liked that SOB from Alabama, George Wallace...the racist that tried to stop desegregation. ????

Dad also told me, before he died, that GHW Bush and his sons were robbing the US. The savings and loan bail outs and the role of the boys in that whole fiasco, and he said that Geo. Bush was a traitor, an evil SOB. (I thought the cancer was getting to his brain...) Now, I just think he was a more careful observer of the government that I had been (prior to the Bush Junior years).

[ikri]

6. I was taken on protest marches as a kid

Whilst I was still a toddler I was taking part in marches against that evil cow Margaret Thatcher.

My parent's politics have definitely shaped my views on the world (for the better). Hell I was reading my mother's books on Marx by the time I was a teenager.

[blogbear]

7. Mine like W..Where does he fit in the spectrum?

[KeepItReal]

8. My parents are from the Deep South

In our case that means:

A) Very religious (but not wear-it-on-your-sleeve)
B) Very conservative (but not imposing their values on strangers, just their children. And I thank them for that.)
C) All-American (all the males pretty much served in the military)
D) Very Democratic. (Where I grew up, Republicans are the same party that David Duke is in. Any questions?)

[longship]

9. Split politics

My mother was a died-in-the-wool, Roosevelt/Truman, liberal Democrat. My father was an Eisenhower Republican. They used to tease each other in a very good natured way. My father would come home from work on election day and say that he had to go and "cancel your mother's vote". My mother didn't hate Republicans--she married one. But more importantly, the household respected everybody's opinions.

My father didn't like George H W Bush. He refused to vote for him either time--opting for Perot instead. He was a classic conservative, in the true sense of the word. Had he lived, I'm sure he would have despised this crowd of lunatics. For one thing, their religiosity would have been a complete turn-off to him.

I often wonder what kind of insane household gave rise to our current crop of Repugs. It certainly wasn't like the loving, tolerant one I grew up in.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

26. Ditto

The usual WASP household dynamics: Roosevelt Democrat mother and Eisenhower Republican father.

This was very common in my corner of the world.

[SusanF_CA]

31. same here

My mom was a true blue Democrat and dad was a republican. However, they never fought about politics.

[Kurovski]

41. Also split

Mom liberal, "live and let live". Dad was moderate union guy, but very conservative on a few issues. Liberal on others.

[applegrove]

10. They were Liberal when they were younger. Today - I would guess

they are Liberal too. But is different in Canada. The old conservative party was small L liberal.

[ET Awful]

11. Mine live decidedly liberal lives but are apolitical, i.e. won't involve

themselves in any way with politics.

[left is right]

12. Dad always said there was no one more conservative than him.

He was always turning off the lights. He didn't believe in buying brand new cars or going into debt. But I always thought he was a closet liberal. He treated people fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, or creed. He has now officially come out of the closet and votes liberally.
Mom, the finest Christian I have ever known, was apolitical until *. She thinks he is the biggest liar/hypocrite and always wonders why anyone would think that Bush is a moral man.

[B Calm]

13. Mom was a republican and Dad a hard working union man democrat.

[KayLaw]

14. McCainish

My father was an Air Force officer who flew planes in Vietnam while McCain was there. He and my mother were self-made millionaires who always voted Republican. However, my mother despised the fundie nutcases who took over the party and stopped voting period.

My mother died and I'm really not sure how my father votes. I know many of his friends (all genuine conservatives) switched to Democratic voting and that his girlfriend is a Democrat.

[mwb970]

15. You left out a choice for "none".

I never heard either parent discuss anything remotely political in the entire time I was growing up. It's like nothing was happening.

[seabeyond]

16. why would you assume both parents would be the same

i cannot answer poll. father would be a mccain, mother an edwards

[etherealtruth]

17. When they were younger ...

...they were the "Ted Kennedy" type ----- I was raised listening to very liberal beliefs. As they aged (now in their late 60's) they became more John Edwards like.

The child I have old enough to vote is a "Green", though he voted for Kerry (2004) ...

[ulysses]

18. I voted Kennedy liberal

but they might be just a shade less so. They're pretty liberal for Oklahoma, anyway.

[Mad_Dem_X]

19. Both parents lifelong Dems

I feel lucky to have grown up in such an atmosphere. :grouphug:

[sendero]

20. My parents ...

... were pretty apolitical when I was growing up. I do remember my dad crying when Kennedy was shot (we lived in Fort Worth at the time) but he never really talked about it - I was pretty young.

Nowadays, they listen to Rush and to Fox and they buy it pretty much. I've gone off on them a couple of times (and anyone here knows how accomplished I can be at that :)) when they (usually dad) made ridiculous assertions that they heard on Fox.

They've pretty much learned to not discuss politics with me any more :)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

21. My father was a committed Socialist.

As was my grandmother and uncles. My stepfather was a rightist. I'm an anarchist.

[Kber]

22. My mom might be insulted if you called her a liberal

because she considers herself way left of "mainstream liberal" political views.

She generally votes Socialist or Green unless there is a tight race in which the "mainstream" dem might actually need her vote.

This year she did vote for Kerry, vor example, instead of Nader. But she's in NYC, so she can afford to be a little left of center.

(The one and only time I was tear-gassed was at a rally in 1972 protesting the war - I was 10 months old at the time.)

[movie_girl99]

23. my parents are both liberal

my mom always worked in a male dominated field and is one hell of a strong woman. My dad is/was a union guy. Big Dem voters they both are.

[SmokingJacket]

24. My parents CHANGED!

Started out liberal, went psycho around 1993 or so.

[SiouxJ]

25. sadly my parents are ditto-heads who can't think for themselves

They can't even discuss politics intelligently anymore, they just go into "oxyRush parrot mode" and don't discuss the point I'm trying to make. When you corner them, they just spurt out something totally irrelevant like, "well, uh, Kerry bought his medals." They are good little brainwashed bush-bots and it's gotten so bad that we don't talk much. My dad still makes stupid anti-French comments and thinks it's funny. They never used to be like this; they used to look into stuff and form their own opinions, but now they just listen to rightwing radio and repeat back what they hear. It gets so old!

[IrateCitizen]

27. I changed my dad from mod. repub to fire-breathing progressive...

... about 5 years ago. He voted for Reagan twice, Bush I twice -- and now has read A People's History of the US two times and scarfs up all my old Nation magazines every time we visit!

Mom has always been a liberal, but I'm much further to the left than she is.

[Arugula Latte]

37. My parents changed too.

They voted for Ford, Reagan. Then saw what a bunch of nutcase loonies the right was. They were always pro-choice, against school prayer, pro-environment. My Mom is actually registered as a Green now, I believe, but often votes Dem.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

28. Mother - Democrat, Father - rabid Republican (until recently)

They never really did get along.

[Solly Mack]

29. My mom was a socialist

[Paranoid_Portlander]

30. One-issue conservative Democrats.

The one issue was strong labor unions because my dad was a union man who realized where his good standard of living came from. Both parents (now deceased) were conservative on all other issues except religion (atheists). They always voted for Democrats.

[Johonny]

32. really none of those

My parents started out more conservative than their parents who were Ted Kennedy liberals to the day they died (well the 30 years I knew them). But they clearly have become MORE liberal as they have gotten older. They have gone from devote catholics to a more agnostic interest in religion. And they hate, HATE George W. Bush and the Neocons.

[Fifth of Five]

33. I chose similar to J. Edwards --

that was when I was growing up (Dad's always been pretty liberal. Mom voted for Nixon in 1968, but Watergate turned her around).

They are now much more liberal. My 83 year-old Mom voted for Kucinich in the primary.

[Blue_In_AK]

34. My dad was a great old Roosevelt Democrat

liberal to the core. My mother was a more moderate Republican type, but she got more liberal as she got older. I'm glad they both passed away in the '90s so that they don't have to witness the mess we've got on our hands now.

[Paranoid_Portlander]

35. Imagine Joe Lieberman without religion.

That best describes my parents. No sanctimony, but pro-war. (Both died before the present occupant seized office.)

[u4ic]

36. My father was an NDPer

who kept on voting Conservative. It's...ah...interesting to hear him rant about "the government should be helping out the people more...blah blah...and how great his union is" (he's retired)....and then vote for Stephen Harper. :banghead:

I have no idea what party my mother voted for, and alas, I can't ask her. She was a Christian in the best sense of the word, very loving, generous, tolerant and concerned about the welfare of others.

[meow2u3]

39. My mom was a New Dealer

She was an independent; my dad, on the other hand, didn't give a damn about politics. In fact, he didn't care about anything--totally apathetic.

[stlsaxman]

40. Mine were Marxist Catholic

Both contributed to and worked w/ Dorothy Day in Chicago on The Catholic Worker editorial board.

"That which you do to the least of these..."

[Initech]

42. Let's put it this way

My mom HATES Bush. Almost as much as I do.

My dad hates Bush, too, but he's more of a moderate (IE he's voted Republican in the past).

[deadparrot]

43. Both liberal,

my dad probably more so than my mom, but they're both teachers. And they're both pretty far to the left...especially in the current political climate.

My mom, who is slightly more moderate, recently said, "These religious right people...they're scaring the crap out of me."

So yeah. I love my parents. :)

[spooked911]

44. Great poll! Cool stuff.