Does your immediate family (spouse, kids) share your political beliefs? A smart family would avoid talking politics, but we aren't that one. We are the one that can no longer have family dinners without at least one person leaving in an aggravated state of mind. I'm glad my kids are out spoken and individuals, but I have no idea how they picked up their viewpoints after growing up in my household. One is a professor and will vote for any minority candidate to show how enlightened he is. One thinks Bernie Sanders is amazing. One will vote for the candidate most likely to assist in making weed and drugs legal.
Thankfully, all of our immediate family are conservatives... including my "millenial" children. Even my son who lives in Oregon!!! :gasp!:
Conservatives mean a different thing in Politics here than it does in the USA.. yes , in answer to your question we do discuss politics.. and yes my daughter gets very heated about it and ' refuses to discuss it'' at times, her views are quote different to ours about certain aspects .. I rarely ever discuss politics online.. but certainly, yes.. as a family we do...
Yes, we can discuss politics quite comfortably. All my family are quite intelligent and are Republicans.
My family is a large Republican family (conservatist and liberal), mostly men, and three of them are Trumpeteers. I do not identify as Democrat or Republican, nor do I call myself an independent. I am a liberal conservatist. I would vote for Kasich in a heart beat if he ran again. I would have signs in my yard, tshirts that said Kasich 2020, and my car would be a moving billboard. If Kasich does not run and Harris makes it to the main event, I will vote Harris. I told my dad that and he stayed quiet. I think he's getting used to me. He used to call me a goat eating Muslim when he found out I voted for Doug Jones (D) for state Senator. In the last election, I lied and said I wrote in Elvis' name because I made it clear I would never vote for Trump. The (Catholic) Republicans who were firmly against Trump refused to vote for a baby killing Democrat (only Democrats have abortions) so they sat out the election. Needless to say, they do not talk politics (in my presence), mainly because I constantly correct them on what the Constitution says, what it means, how the Supreme Court works, and when Trump has a brilliant idea!! I explain to them that we have been doing that since the program's inception... they pretty much start planning my demise. I have a theory that if I get a degree in football/sports, they will stop talking about it in front of me too. I'm pushing for a female Utopian society.
UK is the flip of our parties if I am not mistaken. I'm assuming you are UK. You might be Texan--they think they are a country.
Yes,no ,kinda of. Normally,, not much political talk. I am a person ,not a party...so I vote on whom ever fits the bill for me a regardless of party. Political figures only say what you want to hear and believe while they are campaigning. Makes it hard to choose.
I live in a "house divided". We are as far opposite in politics as you can get. It's difficult, very difficult. When we met 10 years ago, it wasn't too bad. But in the present political climate, it has gotten worse and I don't expect it to get better in the foreseeable future. I have always made an effort to respect other people's views, but I'm having an extremely hard time holding my tongue these days.
I don't live with anyone, but it is easy to imagine disruptive family situations because of what I've seen on social media. In this divisive environment, I'm afraid some families who disagree politically may never get over it. I have one uncle, a life long Democrat, WW2 vet, who is 94, lives in Palm Beach County, FL, and still worries that he may have voted for Buchanan in 2000 by mistake, because of the infamous Butterfly Ballot. LOL My girlfriend (since 3rd grade) and I made a pact long ago not to discuss politics or religion. I have no idea about her politics, and don't want to know. It has worked well. I know I couldn't live with someone who purposely needles, tosses politics into every discussion, no matter what the topic, then sits back quietly and enjoys watching the disruption. I think you call them trolls on social media. I can't imagine being stuck with a real life political troll as a close relative. Yikes!!!
Not really the opposite, no.... for one we have more than 2 parties.. the Main 3 being Conservatives ( who are currently leading the country) Labour, and Liberals.....there are several more who are more significant in this country than the minor parties are in the USA Many people think that the UK Conservative party are like the Republicans, Labour like the Democrats, and the Liberal Democrats are somewhere in between. The Republican party is further right than the Conservative party, and in practice are possibly more in line with the Democrats. In practice the Conservatives are much closer to the Democrats - especially the “One Nation” Conservatives, which arguably the recently resigned Theresa May was , and we have the Buffoon Boris Johnson to lead us now... Only the right wing of the Conservative party really overlaps with any part of the current Republican Party. The Liberal Democrats would be at home with the Democrats, but the Corbynite ( led by the Idiot and fascist Jeremy Corbyn) Labour Party is far to the left of any Democrat. There is nothing in mainstream British politics like the current Republicans - However, just to clarify Americans and British people mean different things by socialism. Oftentimes Americans equate socialism to communism, but in the UK it is the moderate left, a capitalist society with some socialist reforms,namely free healthcare (the NHS) and the welfare state. Thank you for your interest, Holly Saunders Houston Texas...
The term Liberal in the U.S. has been corrupted, too, as many who are labelled "Liberal" here are not Liberal in the classic sense, but are Progressive. Progressivism is a school of thought originating in Germany and has come to mean basically the U.S. Constitution is a relic, no longer relevant, and should be sent to a museum (except the parts they like, of course). Conservative is also a term that has been transformed and has really come to mean reactionary i the Metternich sense rather than classical Conservative. Our schools no longer teach any of this, of course, as they are controlled by Progressives and preach predominantly one side of the philosophical argument. We also don't form coalition governments, and most Americans don't understand the concept, although some states form de facto coalitions as causes in the state legislatures. Sorry if I confused....
The same over here: There are certain issues that can divide a nation as well as a family and they do. This has been the case for decades, though. That's nothing new. With regard to the family there are certain members who are not taken seriously in the first place. They are not accepted as conversational partners . So why bother about their political views? So when the family is together and someone wants to bring up a political topic for discussion the other family members know what to expect and how to handle it. Someone will just say: No politics, please - and that's it. People will then talk about ailments, travels, problems at work and the like again. If they care to vote at all, all family members vote for different political parties.
Our family is a mixed bag of political beliefs. My parents were the type who demanded we agree with them. I guess through that insanity we all came out ok and learned how to keep our opinions in check. As adults we do occasionally discuss things political and we have healthy debates but in the end we respect the right of all of us to differ in beliefs. So far so good .. and all the children and grands have been taught to behave the same way and to know when to stop.