Your parents' and grandparents' political views

Funny, my parents and grandparents were all Democrats.

Last president Grandma voted for was Bill Clinton. Other grandparents died when I was very young.

First president Dad voted for was Roosevelt in 1944 and voted Democratic every time through 2004 except 1972 and he regretted that one.

Mom never ever tells who she votes for but I am 100% sure it is Democratic. I know she voted for Hilarie. She has also never ever been one to discuss politics but she has, many times lately, said "Trump, that asshole."

Grandparents were conservatives, but grandma voted JFK. Parents are conservatives, but voted Dem starting in Dubya's second term.

Dad was a veteran so whoever was a veteran, got his vote. He voted for Carter twice and GHWBush twice, so he did cross back and forth. He’s dead now, so who knows what he’d make of things.

Mom loved GHWBush but not the son. She voted for Obama both times. Proclaimed herself “disgusted” with the choices last election.

OP, your parents sound incredibly intelligent.

They understood decades before anyone else that the American empire and multiple military adventures throughout the world would eventually cause problems.

If Goldwater had won then our country would be far more successful and peaceful.

My maternal grandparents were staunch Republicans (because he owned a small business). My insane mother naturally despised him for this, and her hatred radicalized her. She is WAY left, mostly votes Dems, but has a history of voting even third party. I remember her vocalizing her support of Anderson!! I was born in ‘72 FYI. My dad (dead alcoholic) becAme more Repub aa his drinking progressed which I hated seeing. My dad was a moral leader to me and to watch him morph into a racist with his drinking devastated me, I was raised better. My mother is still a VERY active Bernie supporter, she canvassed countless times for Bernie, in Chicago. My paternal grandparents were probably Repub??? I was so little when they died, but Gramps was a Teamster and loyal-to-the-death Hoffa-ist, so I’m guessing they were Repub.

But my mother’s politics did influence me quite a bit. I hate to see how conservative voters become as they age, I’m trying to avoid that.

I didn't mention my grandparents, most of whom lived to ripe old ages. Daddy's father would probably be considered a paleoconservative by today's standards. He died when I was a teenager, but I remember him well. Family lore has it that he refused to speak to my father for months after my father voted for FDR. He thought William F. Buckley was a fine man and despised the Kennedys. My father's attitudes about black people and the civil rights movement were, sadly, progressive compared to his father's. Grandfather was far too genteel to be rude to anyone, but he basically thought that black people were "made" for farm labor and domestic work and were incapable of higher intelligence. He thought the former slaves should've been sent back to Africa after the Civil War and that would've saved everyone a lot of trouble.

He despised the Kennedys, thought the Irish were trash (Italians were even worse), and that Catholics shouldn't be allowed to run for office. I remember him voting for Nixon in the 1960 election and Goldwater in 1964. He died while LBJ was still president.

My mother's parents never discussed politics much at all.

R6

A liberal is a conservative who has never been mugged.

R7

“He thought the former slaves should've been sent back to Africa after the Civil War and that would've saved everyone a lot of trouble.”

So he agreed with Abe Lincoln?

Lincoln hated black people. His diaries and Minh walls contain multiple passages we are he laments their presence in the United States, and his desire to ship them back to Africa.

Republicans who agreed w r7 ‘s grandfather on every point.

R8, while there is some truth to that, I understand what you mean, I think the REAL truth is that we stop “growing” as we age. We succumb to narcissism.

R11

No, as we age we realize our ideal- that all humans are the same- is a fantasy.

Put me in a room with 100 black men wearing Gucci suits and I would be totally comfortable.

Put me in a room with 100 black men wearing wife beaters and carrying guns, I would run for my life.

Is that racist?

I don’t know because my grandparents never discussed politics in front of us. I guess they didn’t feel it was everyone’s business.

My mom is a Democrat. My father refused to tell who he voted for, because he was from a former communist country. He gained citizenship through his service in Vietnam. “As an American citizen, I am guaranteed the right to a SECRET BALLOT!” We used to tease him about it, and now I feel bad for that. He was immensely proud of his citizenship — and disappointed when the system let him down.

R12, I actually didn’t think of your point when I posted, and I agree. But I still think many people become more conservative because our culture doesn’t encourage community, so after navel-gazing for 30 years, it isn’t surprising to me that people become more selfish in how they vote.

R14

Hey single government managing the lives of 325 million people is unsustainable. Devolve all government power back to the states and communities, with county level disbursement of funds, and things will improve. Without Washington DC, we be invading 3/4 of the planet with rapist soldiers.

Let's all hope that R15 doesn't run for office.

Lol

Grandparents: Union, civil rights loving democrats on my mother's side

Parents: My mom votes with her second husband and votes the same as he does, but claims not to have voted for Trump (lying probably).

My dad lets his dog decide. He shows the dog pictures of each candidate and picks whoever the dog sniffs--or so he says.

R16

I actually hold a public office. Twat.

My grandfather was a Legion post commander, with all that entails. My father and mother Irish Catholic union Democrats who loved TrUman for dropping the bomb, loved JFK, LOVED Joe McCarthy, which was very common in Boston. They hated Nixon with the heat of a thousand suns. Loved Reagan, thought Jimmy Carter was a fool. They would have despised Trump, my dad because he was draft dodger, my mom because Trump was married 3 times and fooled around.

R16 I was just going to say, you sound responsible and judicious and even-keeled.

R19, pleeeeeeeaaasssee, indulge me. I know you can’t give specific hints, but can you tell us what type of office you hold? Local, state, or federal? What region? What party? For how long?

And R19 please tell us all where in Venezuela you serve.

R20

I’m glad my mom and grandmother were horrified by the mass murder committed by Wilson. Your grandmother was a CUNT!!!

No sane human being can celebrate the mass murder of innocent people. You sound like a sociopath too!

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R22

State level, elected in 2014.

Republican, but anti-war and anti banks.

I’ve lived with a man for over a decade, but I’ve never seen a single article reference it. It’s a small community so people don’t care about my sex life, only that I oppose every tax increase and try to cut spending at every level.

R24 is a nut who can’t deal with reality.

My father was a staunch Republican and his father was a Republican county chairman and later a Republican elected Judge. I think my mother would more vote for the man instead of the party, but she NEVER spoke politics. I am a liberal Democrat.

My great-grandmother (mom's mom's mom) told me how she was ecstatic the first time she voted in 1920, for Harding, when she was 23 years old. She was a solid Republican. Her last vote for president was Dole in 1996.

My other maternal (great-)grandparents were also Republicans, since they were rural, white, farmers, and uneducated. Not to mention that until FDR, powerful democrats were, to them, racist Southerners.

My dad's family were straight-ticket Democrats.

My parents' first election was 1960 and they were in awe of the Kennedys. Mom sent me to school on Election Day in 1972 with a ✌️McGovern with stickers and pins all over it. My third-grade teacher, the Methodist minister's wife, sent me to the office. They called my mom to bring me a different shirt. Mom didn't take shit from anybody. She came to the school, cussed out the principal, and I returned to class as I was, embarrassed as hell.

My dad's uncle was a Democratic politician. First as a county commissioner, then state representative, then state senator. He is retired now, but an active sharer of lefty propaganda on Facebook.

[quote] A liberal is a conservative who has never been mugged.

R8 you really have a very simplistic thought process, not right, just simplistic.

R6 Wrong. My family are all Democrats going back three generations that I know of. My grandfather and father both served in the military and were very progressive men. My father was a small business owner and one night was held up at gunpoint and told to lay down on the floor. As he lay there he thought he would be shot and that he was living his final moments. The man took the money and left. My father came home quite shaken but his political views never changed and why would they?

My Grandfather was a Democrat until Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur. For reasons lost to time apparently that was enough to make him a Republican for the rest of his life.

Raised by aunt and uncle. Boomers, I'm Y. They were Ontario conservatives. Aunt was a nurse but I guess okay with the cutbacks. Uncle was a teacher but I recall him being a 'scab' during a strike. However, I think their more public positions (and over time, needs) softened them to being more small c conservatives that may vote conservative locally, but not necessarily love conservative candidates beyond that. We lived in a rural area, though what was normal small-town-to-large-town for me, may have been farm-to-eventually-large-town for them.

Socially they seemed relatively lax. I don't recall them turning off anything that seemed liberal on the television, but I'd also see them scoff at it sometimes and especially if it was overtly political (parties). They probably are part of the crowd hating Wynne Liberal here, but I haven't heard them ever tout the Progressive Conservatives here either.

They were at least accepting on the face when I came out very early, but were probably primed by some signs like my demeanor (not quite 'fem' but unconcerned about ever acting so, no direct interest in girls), the 00s 'gay tolerance' wave, and some proof of my homosexuality like Internet history (woops). They are nice to and act interested in the status of my romantic partners, and would likely attend any wedding (at least as long as it isn't done in a way to embarrass them and their fake sensibilities) and that's good enough for me.

They've been big users of welfare (called Ontario Works by now.. thanks PCs) and hospital emergency rooms, so they see use for themselves and others to use funded public services, but they're just quick to slash that down to something they think is responsible.

Myself, I've voted NDP just about every time and I don't otherwise align with any party. In political compass tests I end up somewhat left, a little libertarian (that is, individual vs collective policy focus). I'm cynical about all parties, and even see a value in aspects of the right, but I'm happy to do movements to shake the system leftward. I'm one who generally supported Sanders from afar and advised people to vote Clinton in anything close to a swing state, but otherwise do what you want (abstain, other, green, whatever) - that isn't voting for the orange idiot.

Grandparents, I dunno. Somehow, I weirdly wonder (since there was a time they might have raised me instead) if they'd be more left than my parents (aunt and uncle). But my whole family probably comes from anti-communist reaction (Ukraine?, etc) so I don't think they'd go very left, just 'city life' left.

R14 So, conservative equals selfish. Very nuanced. I love how you're so empathetic and sneering/nasty in the same thought. That's quite a talent.

My immigrant Catholic grandparents became Democrats in 1928, when Al Smith was the nominee. My grandparents and parents were staunch New Dealers. My grandfathers never lived to see JFk elected, but my grandmothers did

My parents were blue-collar Catholic Democrats. My father and his brothers loathed Ronald Reagan.

Dad and I stood in the rain to attend a Hilary Clinton rally in 2008 after Obama clinched the nomination. Dad was right that Obama was too inexperienced for the job.

I wish Dad had lived to see the Trump presidency. I don't know if he would be laughing hysterically or sobbing hysterically watching Trump in action.

I miss my Dad

You old as fuck, OP.

[quote]I wish Dad had lived to see the Trump presidency. I don't know if he would be laughing hysterically or sobbing hysterically watching Trump in action.

For me it's my Mother. She hated LBJ with a passion because he was so uncouth. It was bad enough that he mushed up his ice cream at State Dinners, but when she saw that photo where he pulled up his shirt and showed off his gall bladder scar I thought she was going to have a stroke. Trump would have driven her round the bend for sure.

LBJ had a great Texas chili recipe.

It’s called Perdenales chili, named after his ranch I think.

My parents are immigrants. Like r13, my father gained citizenship from service in Vietnam. My mom loves to talk about how she got a 100 percent on her citizenship test. Her swearing in was one of the proudest days of her life. They're both lifelong republicans. My sister is generally liberal like me but she voted for Trump this year as well as my parents.

I've always been the black sheep in the family but I do get where they're coming from. After all, it was through Navy and Marine scholarships that paid for my entire college education where I spent most of my time protesting the military and war in Iraq.

My paternal parents were dead before I arrived, and I never spoke politics around my maternal parents (all were immigrants). Both are my parents are staunch Democrats- in this latest election my Mom voted for Hillary and my Dad for Bernie Sanders. They both hate Trump with the white hot heat of a thousand suns.

R24 Your post is scrambled, probably like your brain. Woodrow Wilson committed mass murder, what? Ohhhhh, you mean Truman, who ended World War Two a year or more before it would have ended otherwise, and saved the lives of an estimated million Americans, not to mention millions of British, Canadian, Chinese, Koreans and especially Japanese people who would have died in combat, fire bombing, malnutrition and disease if the war had continued. ----Is that what you meant? And I didn't say I endorsed their opinion, it was a question OP posted about political opinions. On the other hand, in memory of my Gi father, go fuck yourself.