What are your parents political views?

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What are your parents political views? Conservative, liberal, socialist, communist, etc. European labels apply too this time. How do your views compare?

My dad is an avowed tea party conservative type. My mom has an independent mind. I am more of a mixed, but I can't stand authoritarianism. My dad especially has trouble understanding this.

Generally FOX News conservatives, though my mom is swayed a little more by Christian Conservatism.

Democrat/liberal except when it suited their immediate needs to be otherwise. Both were nuts. My old man died of a stroke so he is no longer one or the other but I'm sure he'd want to be remembered as a democrat. My mother is mostly just a sock puppet for anyone that wants to stick their hand up her ass and take over. Her default setting is liberal democrat but if someone gets into her mind (an easy task with such an empty head) she'll swing conservative temporarily.

I started really getting tired of their sh!t when I was 14; all that talk about wanting to take all the money from these people to give to those people and regulating or banning everything under the sun was too much.
Then there was the two faced racial BS (e.g. "We deeply sympathise with the plight of inner city blacks and oppose all racism............but, of course, we don't want a family of ni66ers living next door to us"). Either embrace racial equality or don't. Be a card carrying klansman for all I care but don't be one while making a show of pretending to be the other, that's just sickening.

They drove me conservative then eventually my brother.

Liberals, to some degrees central and far left depending on the topic, like myself.

When I was younger my parents were liberal/moderate. Now they are best described as Christian Fundamentalist Conservative.
My grandad is classically conservative, i.e., small government, minimum taxes, but actually mostly socially liberal, however not libertarian. My grandmother has alzheimers, so I don't know what her views are. My grandad on my father's side is dead, but he was a scientist who worked for the government and I don't know what he believed, but he was probably moderate. My grandmother on my father's side is moderate.

I myself could be called a classic liberal, but I really don't care about politics anymore as I have lost faith in humanity...

The problem with labels like conservative and liberal is the amount of definitions concerning what they mean.
Conservatism has around 22 definitions and liberal has a similar amount.

My parents are both Republicans, though I think in recent years they've leaned more towards the center-right. I think the old term "fiscally conservative, socially liberal" fits them the best.

My parents were conservative until my mental illness became so bad that I couldn't hold a job. Co workers fu*cking with me and getting in the way of doing my job. Now they are progressive. NAMI changed their view points.

My friend's dad is the epitomy of cognitive dissonence. He yells at his son when they debate the Trayvyon Martin case. My friend and I feel that Zimmerman is innocent. His tea party dad swears that Zimmerman is the devil himself. He even bought him a black hoody for Christmas to grind him even more.

I've joked with my dad that we should paint "I am Trayvyon Martin" on the front of it to piss his dad off. If his violent acting dad confronts me about it, I'll just say that now your son can go and steal anything he wants in the middle of the night without anyone knowing what he looks like or whether he's white, black, or blue.

And an extreme leftist from MSNBC said (CHRIS MATHEWS), "how many times do I have to be beaten in the head before I fire one shot."

My dad and I joke that if someone were beating the hell out of me in MMA style, I'd have a hard time unloading the clip on him.

Seriously, in the dark of night, with a black hoodie on, how can you tell what color someone is? And what gives a person the right to beat the living sh*t out of someone for following them or asking them for ID?

I sure hope SPike Lee doesn't somehow find this post and twitter the whole nation that I don't agree with him. Otherwise, I'd be lynched and dead for voicing an opinion. And I consider myself liberal.

Let us just say that my mom has officially banned all political discussion between myself and my father, and she does not permit him to watch Fox News when she is around, which immensely annoys him to the point that he now refers to Food Network as "Cupcake Wars."

And she is a catty, little United Methodist grandmother. I swear that she is just like an anthropomorphic cat.

Both my parents would probably say neither party represents them, I remember both being very interested in third party candidates growing up like Ross Perot/Pat Buchanan/Ralph Nader/Jesse Ventura. Neither of them really put that much importance on voting anymore, disgusted at the choices more or less and the realization that 1 vote doesn't change anything anyways. Pretty strong live and let live civil libertarians, I'd say they both have a dislike of the establishment. I can see how they've influenced my own beliefs and I think I've influenced them as well these last few years.

national socialists.....

just joking, they are social democrats.

Whatever is on Al Rojo Vivo, as far as I know.

My mom votes Democrat, but agrees that members of both the Republican and Democrat parties act like nothing more than whiny little brats.