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I was wondering does anyone have a family as politically diverse as mine?
I personally am a Libertarian,my mothers side of the family are republicans,my grandparents on my fathers side are democrats,and my dad does'nt vote.
Anyone else have a family where they stick out like I do?

My own family seems to primarily consist of bleeding-heart liberals, but my boyfriend's family is far more entertaining.

His dad and one of his dad's brothers are working-man liberals. They are pro-labor sorts who also tend to have other relatively liberal social values. However, they've got an older brother who made it rich, and who appears to have become Republican mainly because he knows he'll get more tax cuts from the GOP.

His mom's side of the family is Republican because of conservative social values. They're white middle class Protestants who are well-meaning and very welcoming, but who have quiet misgivings about any "non-conventional" sorts like gays, unmarried couples, and overly educated females who don't stay home with their babies. (All of which have made for some interesting Thanksgiving dinners, since I'm living in sin with their prized Eldest Son, and I'm a non-hetero female PhD candidate.)

Out of the whole family, the only real assholes are the rich uncle on the Dad's side and his offspring. The rest are all nice people who mean well. They choose not to talk about politics much, because they don't like to fight with each other.

My dad is moderate, my mom is a left-wing democrat bordering on socialist. My dad's parents are die hard republicans, and my mom's parents were pretty left-leaning democrats. My mom's mom grew up in San Francisco, and has been about two generations ahead of the curve. Today she'd be considered an average liberal, but in her youth she was positively a hell raiser.

My brother is socialist leaning towards anarchism, and my sisters are all too young to care about politics. I'm an anarcho-communist myself.

None of my parents really care about politics but they always vote for the social democrats. My relatives don't care about politics either and they usually don't vote.

We're all social liberals but don't even think about it politically.

We don't talk a lot about politics in our family. I'm quite left (I vote green last time I voted) my father is center right (christian democrats) my mother doesn't care a lot but she votes green. My sisters are apolitical (or a little bit liberal but generally they don't care.) I have an uncle who is a socialist I think. My grandparents on one my mother's side are social democrats or some other center-party. On my fathers side they're probably christian democrats. I don't know about the rest of my family, but we're quite diverse.

My mother is centre-left (Liberal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada)), my dad is left moderate (NDP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democratic_Party)), though he was once Liberal. I'm far left, with my dad once calling me a pinko commie and my mother's side, which is dominantly Liberal thinks I'm out of my mind for voting for the NDP. My in-laws are... conservative, and my husband votes for the same party that I do though he's moderates.

my immediate family is all liberal democrat and my grandmother is one of the old time Communists (so there all wrong since I generally support green)

we have a BNP uncle though I guess thats non-left just for a change

Dad's side Conservative, Mother's side conservative but slightly closer to the left... And various communist cousins, anarchist uncles... and libertarian brothers.

Father is conservative, Mother is centrist. I feel weird being so liberal almost to the point of socialist

Not so much, really. My folks are both Democrats, and so am I (although, since primaries are more important than general elections, and my father and I have never supported the same candidate in a primary every: eg. in 2004, I supported Dean, he supported Edwards). My Grandparents are all Democrats, although apparently my Paternal Grandfather may have, at one time, been a Communist (not really clear on this at all). However, one of my Aunts is a die-hard Fiscal Conservative who votes Republican (some of her descisions in raising her children led to her splitting with my Grandmother, and so we haven't spoken in a long time), and another is a die-hard Christian Conservative who is hell bent on converting us all. She's a sweet woman, but it gets really annoying.

Dad: Usually votes Liberal (Left of Centre)
Mom: Same as Dad
Sister: Don't Know, doesn't talk about politics
Me: NDP (New Democratic Party - Left wing)

I'm a Libertarian
My dad is a Democrat
My mom is a moderate Republican
My brother and his family don't care
and I don't know about my girlfriend.

I am descended from a long line of Yellow Dog Democrats.

Mom: Left-of-center authoritarian
Dad: Right-wing conservative
Brother: Republitarian
Me: Natural law anti-statist

I am a radical liberal. Both parents are Uk-style conservatives. My sister and living grandparents are not political. I'm told one great grandfather was a member of the Scottish Communist Party, and volunteered for the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War (he was refused because he had a family). So we're pretty diverse. My personal political views come from my educational background in economics rather than my family.

Atma knows that Dubya is a horrible human being.
Atma's mom knows that Dubya is a horrible human being.
Atma's dad knows that Dubya is a horrible human being.
Atma's stepfather knows that Dubya is a horrible human being.

My family is diverse, but not overtly so.


I'm a far-left Liberal Democratic Socialist.

My mum's a Democratic party voting centrist.

I'm not sure if my father's ever voted, but I'd say he's probably close to Libertarian.

My fathers side of the family are mostly Conservative Republican Mormons.

My mothers side of the family are Democrats with varying degrees to the left for the most part, though I think my maternal grandpa was an Independent who just voted for whoever he liked.


I've had a boyfriend that was just as far left as I am and agnostic, and a moderately conservative Muslim boyfriend as well, so I guess that adds some flavour as well.

Let's see... I am a social democrat basically, I guess that's a good way to sum up my own politics.

My grandfather is a democrat but really basically a socialist. My grandmother is a political moderate but somewhat left leaning, however, she was in the Republican party until 2002 despite not voting for any Republican politicians since Eisenhower.

My dad was a working-man democrat who also believed that government had no business in the bedroom, nor should it favor any religion (he himself was a Catholic). He was environmentalist, but not as much as my mother, who is a liberal democrat with the environment being the most important issue for her (much like myself). My younger sister is politically very similar to my dad, my older two sisters are a bleeding heart liberal and a more moderate democrat.

My aunt is a working class democrat as well, very similar to my dad. My other aunt is from what I can tell a total bleeding heart but her husband is an independent and self professed swing-voter. Arguing with him is kinda annoying.

My uncle (dad's brother, all my aunts thus far are my dad's sisters) is a liberal but doesn't talk about politics much, because he doesn't talk at all much. His wife is also left-leaning, but more moderate and possessed of some really kinda wacky ideas that come out when she's had too much wine.

My cousins are all leftist to one degree or another.

On the other side of my family, my grandfather was a republican, but never voted with his party as he was also an environmentalist. Same with my grandmother, though she also switched to the Democratic party in 2002.

My aunt and her husband are vegan socialists (and sometimes conspiracy theorists)... boy, that can get interesting.

My other aunt on that side is quite left-wing but not the sort of person one would describe as a bleeding heart.

I'm on the Left (I'd be a Social Democrat, if they existed in this country), my parents will generally (but not always) vote for the Republic Party, and my brother is a neo-con chickenhawk.

I'm on the Left (I'd be a Social Democrat, if they existed in this country), my parents will generally (but not always) vote for the Republic Party, and my brother is a neo-con chickenhawk.
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no member of my family have any current political allegiances. my dad says that his political stance falls mainly in with the old social democratic party as was. my mum used to be much more conservative than she is now and she would have probably voted tory if she could, but i think she'd vote lib dems now, she's been learning tolerance. my sister's politics is much like my dad's, perhaps slightly more right leaning. i'm much more left wing and liberal than the rest of my family.

I think my family actually all voted for different parties in the 2004 election.

My mother is apolitical except for a hatred for John Howard and George Bush.

My brother is a WoW addict who wouldn't have a clue.

My father is an obsessive moderate, who I get into arguments with all the time about my radical libertarian stance.

My mom is very conservative Republican, I'm a liberal democrat, my dad is a moderate democrat, my middle brother is a moderate republican, and my oldest bro is an extreme liberal democrat.

I was wondering does anyone have a family as politically diverse as mine?
I personally am a Libertarian,my mothers side of the family are republicans,my grandparents on my fathers side are democrats,and my dad does'nt vote.
Anyone else have a family where they stick out like I do?

My dad is a Republican, but he doesn't particularly like Bush. More of a classic Republican. Supports low taxes over social programs, etc. I'm a more liberal soul, but my dad's knowledge of economics leads me to believe there needs to be a balance.

My mom is very conservative, my dad moderately conservative , my sister is a bleeding-heart libertarian, my brother is a hard-ass libertarian, and I'm a Goldwater conservative.

Political discussions are interesting in my family.

I'm the only person in my family who is at all concerned with national issues, other than the Iraq War. Everyone in my family is against the war. All of our political discussions are about state issues, which generally involve bitching about the Governor of late. My grandfather votes Republican most of the time, while the rest of my family is vaguely Democratic of the blue collar pro-gun union type. I'm the oddity as I'm a social democrat (in the Scandinavian sense) who votes Green in most elections.

My mother is a Republican because her family has always been so, but often diverges from the party line a lot, while my father is a hardline conservative. As far as I can tell, my brother seems to lean toward centrism with a strong conservative undercurrent but rarely expresses any political opinions. Of course, I'm an anarchist, though my mother has been very good about keeping the peace in political discussions.

I don't like this thread title and I broke the political compass.

My family is made up of liberal democrats, though my dad calls himself an independent even though he hasn't voted for one since Nixon promised to end Vietnam and took his time doing it. My sister and I are more liberal socially. My parents are against gay marriage, but for civil unions, and drug legalization.

My parents are Conservative, being against teh ebil gays and all that. I vote NDP for the exact opposite reason. I'm not sure where my brother stands, or if he even cares.

I'm sure my dad's mom is Conservative, but I really don't think my other Grandma knew much about the politcal parties even before the Alzheimer's.

I'm pretty much surrounded by Conservatives. If there are any Liberals or NDP supporters in my family, they're hiding like me.

I was wondering does anyone have a family as politically diverse as mine?
I personally am a Libertarian,my mothers side of the family are republicans,my grandparents on my fathers side are democrats,and my dad does'nt vote.
Anyone else have a family where they stick out like I do?

I think i stick out more because i've taken the last seven years or so a lot more personally than almost anyone else in my family, and i have pretty much from the beginning.
Raised libertarian, now independent moderate. Or ... chaotic neutral. :p

My parents are mostly socially conservative, although they support gay marriage and abortion. My youngest brother doesn't care and my middle brother...well he just rebels, and argues with my parents about anything. I'm to the left myself. Our family doesn't really talk about politics all that much.

I'm liberal. More accurately, I'm 30 years too young to be truly beatnik. My dad has probably voted for a dead man on the Republican ticket (though I can't get him to admit to this). He believes everyone should be conservative. It's fun when my moderate boyfriend comes over and I sit there digging my nails into his leg ("Don't say anything!").

I'm a Democratic Socialist myself, my father and my uncles from his side are just right-of-center, but refuse to align themselves with the Republican Party.

My two sisters are the exact opposite, they're both left-of-center but refuse to align themselves with the Democrats. As for my mother... She's a Conservative Christian Republican 100 percent. So I only have to thank the flying spaghetti monster that on Thanksgiving, we spend more time arguing on the flavor of the dessert pie rather than politics.

I'm a socialist, my dad's a Democrat, my mom's a Democrat for the most part, but isn't very opinionated.

My parents are both extremely liberal Democrats, my uncle on my mom's side is a paleoconservative, and my other two uncles are fiscally conservative Republicans, though I think they are fairly moderate about it. My brother is a very conservative Republican, and I am a self-identified Democrat because I am liberal on most economic issues and the environment, though I am very conservative on most social issues. In Europe I'd probably be a Christian Democrat.

My mother has NO idea that I am a libertarian and she isn'nt very tolerent of other political views.Its a time bomb waiting to happen.

My family takes elections as if it's a family thing. They really go to the polling place together, like a family trip or something. Me, I'm a disfranchised voter. Me and my sister are liberal compared to my average countryman, she being more liberal and more green. My mom is a free-market capitalist, my father just votes whoever strikes his fancy during election time.

Most of my family is basically centrist, left-leaning on some issues, right-leaning on others. Antipathy toward both major parties runs high, and they usually vote for whomever they perceive as "the lesser of two evils."

most of my immediate family, including me, are die hard libertarians. unfortunately though, the rest of them are naive liberals

I don't know much about my dad's side of the family politically, but my mom's side is a little bit of a mixed bag. My great grandma, grandma, and grandpa are all democrats. My great aunt is a pretty big Democrat and her husband is Republican (though I know if he has ever told her that before). My aunt and uncle I think leaned Republican in 2000, but went more centrist in 2004. The immediate family is mostly conservative Republicans. My mom is a pretty big conservative, though she never votes. My step-dad is also conservative leaning though probably less so than my mom. I myself am center-right Republican, with being moderate on social issues (I'm pro-life but also pro-gay marriage for example), and then more fiscally conservative as far as the economy goes.

My mother and father are both total Republicans, with perhaps the exception that they both are for legalizing pot. Oh, yeah, and I'm a Libertarian.

Other then that all my relatives are Democrats...real Democrats.

My Grandfather: "Bush is having our troops slaughter innocent Iraqis!"

Me: "Well Bush is an idiot, but I don't think all the Iraqis being killed there are innocent."

GD: "Whattaya mean?!?!?!"

Me: "Well a good deal of them blow people-up."

GD: "Of course they blow us-up, we're invading their homeland. We didn't even try to reason with Osama bin Laden when we invaded. We just attacked."

Me: "Well he did attack us...."

GD: "But why? We need to find out."

Me: "He's not all that reasonable. His organization used to be "the front against Jews and infidels"...but I thought we were talking about Iraq--"

GD: "Why is like that? We probably offended him."

Me: "Well, we didn't exactly try to reason with Japan when they hit Pearl Harbor."

GD: "That was different, they were invading us."

Me: "No they weren't."

GD: "Yes they were. A poll shows 4/5 Iraqis want us to leave."

Me: "Huh, what? what? That's bullshit. Where'd you get that?"

GD: "I'm not going to prove commonly known facts."

I have no idea.

Other then that all my relatives are Democrats...real Democrats.

My Grandfather: "Bush is having our troops slaughter innocent Iraqis!"

Me: "Well Bush is an idiot, but I don't think all the Iraqis being killed there are innocent."

GD: "Whattaya mean?!?!?!"

Me: "Well a good deal of them blow people-up."

GD: "Of course they blow us-up, we're invading their homeland. We didn't even try to reason with Osama bin Laden when we invaded. We just attacked."

Me: "Well he did attack us...."

GD: "But why? We need to find out."

Me: "He's not all that reasonable. His organization used to be "the front against Jews and infidels"...but I thought we were talking about Iraq--"

GD: "Why is like that? We probably offended him."

Me: "Well, we didn't exactly try to reason with Japan when they hit Pearl Harbor."

GD: "That was different, they were invading us."

Me: "No they weren't."

GD: "Yes they were. A poll shows 4/5 Iraqis want us to leave."

Me: "Huh, what? what? That's bullshit. Where'd you get that?"

GD: "I'm not going to prove commonly known facts."
Sounds a little like my talks with my grandfather when we play chess.Heck,his ideas are perfect!...If everyone was logical like him.Not everyone sees the world in his eyes and that is what he dosen't understand.Some people will fight and die for unproven,disproven,and downright stupid things.Not saying that islam is stupid,sorry if it came out like that.

It's rather strange here as well: My parents vote green or SocDem even though my Dad is rather conservative. I am in the German Pirate Party, my grandma normally argues for viewpoints of the CDU, all of her children except my Ma are communist (I'd assume they vote PDS, SocDem or now Linkspartei) and my bro is totally apathetic towards politics.

Family celebrations are sometimes fun this way :)

I am in the German Pirate Party

For great justice :)