My mom was raised in Texas but her extreme ignorance was fixed when she moved to Chicago for college and read a real newspaper. My dad was never ignorant, so I was raised left wing.
My mom was raised in Texas but her extreme ignorance was fixed when she moved to Chicago for college and read a real newspaper. My dad was never ignorant, so I was raised left wing.
My family was entirely apolitical until 9/11, literally never heard anyone discuss politics for most of my youth... Though I would assume they were more or less evenly split, with my dad's side of the family (poorer, no college grads, white, came from Kentucky, etc.) being predominantly Republican and my mom's side of the family (hardcore Catholics, lot's of adopted multi-ethnic kids, college educated, wealthier [not rich though, by any means]) being predominantly Democrat.
After 9/11 I'd say my upbringing was more right wing... Both of my parents were very much in favor or invading Afghanistan and strongly/vocally supported Bush at the time (my dad in particular, being a firefighter, 9/11 hit him particularly close to home), they seemed indifferent to Iraq by the time 2003 rolled around, however.
Wouldn't really say they tried to influence me either way though... Just that in the wake of 9/11 they wore their politics on their sleeve and it tended to be right-wing. The first time I voted was in 2012 for Obama. After high school I became obsessed with politics and would often discuss it with my family, and they were happy to oblige. My mother and sisters mostly agree with me, my dad not so much. Though all of us are fed up with fringe leftists of late. In 2016 everyone but my dad voted for Clinton, but I am pretty sure my dad didn't vote at all and he usually criticizes Trump anytime he's brought up.
Grew up in fairly apolitical, strongly secular environment. Parents were voters, but not affiliated with either party and voted R in some elections and D in some others. They grew more conservative as they got older. One sibling spent a lot of time in academia and is quite liberal, but not a bleeding heart or moonbat by any stretch of the imagination. Other sibling is a sort of "detached military conservative", but not a Trump voter, and does not waste a lot of energy on politics. I kind of fell in between the two and mostly ended up playing devil's advocate.
In my youth my Mom was anti-gun, pro-union, pro-Choice -- then she met my step father and went full on Fox News parrot.
It's incredibly difficult to deal with her at times.
“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”― Malcolm X
I watch them fight and die in the name of freedom. They speak of liberty and justice, but for whom? -Ratonhnhaké:ton (Connor Kenway)
Nobody in my family has any real political opinions or votes. My sister voted once I think, or she said she planned to but probably didn't.
Then again I don't vote either, but I was never raised with much in the way of political opinions as a child. I was never told who was a good president, or even talk of who was an ideal prime minister candidate. None of it seems to matter to any of us.
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Progressive Democratic ideals are just an extension of quaker and other protestant ideas simply without the God part.
They may not be traditional or Orthodox, or even biblical but really even the most staunch atheist progressive is really echoing Quakerism and some other ideas in the present.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
I'm not doubting the veracity of that, but it still wouldn't actually make CNN "far left," or even "left." Because Hillary isn't very far left. She would've been like Obama: Progressive in the streets, centrist in the sheets. Oh, and CNN is a corporate network- woke capitalism in network form. Sure they'll be liberal on several social issues, but they're owned and run by ultra-rich people people and wealthy shareholders, and they and the companies they depend on ad revenue from are by and large opposed to the actual left.
"We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
-Louis Brandeis
Mother is pretty leftist besides a couple of traits, father is quite conservative in nature.. But has strong leftist ideals.
I like to think I believe in self-development and self-responsibility.. But I am also very compassionate and left learning. I guess I am more centrist than anything.
Both are fairly centrist. My Mother is pretty much a libertarian. She's always had the attitude of "You do you and I'll do me", has never treated anyone different for their race/sexual preference since she doesn't care what People are moreso who they are since Personality is the major contributor to how to act towards someone, has worked nearly her entire life and believes you get what you work for.
We didn't talk about it much, but both my parents voted for fairly centrist parties. Just slightly to either side of the middle. Of their 3 children, one votes left, one votes right, and one shifts about the center a bit.
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Depending on your point of view:
Nazis are radical fight, FOX News is centrist and the beacon of freedom, CNN and Europe is radical left and bordering on soviet because they are on the side of eliminating voting rights and wiping out capitalism.
OR
Nazis are radical right, Fox is radical right and they want to install a male white christian dictatorship, CNN is centrist, and Europe is center left and the beacon of freedom.
Fun huh?
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No more of a joke than you saying CNN is not left wing. Fox news refers to men like Bruce Jenner as "she" that's pretty left wing. Luckily they balance it out by poiting out CNN's left wing bias, so yes, I say middle of the road for Fox.
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Grew up with a soft-left Lib Dem father and a conservative Persian mother. I take after my father a lot and was politically similar to him in my teens and early 20s, and then like many people I became more conservative/libertarian as I gained life experience. I also learned about the evil of the cult of islam from how my mother's family was treated in the revolution so I'm thankful that I have more insight than your average westerner. These days my father has actually abandoned many of his "progressive" beliefs in the last few years as they have become untenable. Our whole family voted Leave and he even found himself being pro-Trump. He stopped reading the Economist and the Guardian, waking up to the amount of fake news and he is now getting his information from more varied independent sources. I think he is typical of his boomer generation that grew up blindly trusting establishment politics and establishment media, and it's difficult for them to let go.