Both mom and dad are rightwing idiots who parrot whatever bullshit they read on facebook. Muslims are trying to take over the country and the government can't do anything right and a #Nexit is the best thing that could possibly happen to the Netherlands.
Needless to say that the rest of the family desperately tries to avoid the topic of politics when we're together, but somehow they always manage to devolve every conversation into politics, and my mother is the type of person who rather than argue her points just keeps stating her points louder and louder until she's practically screaming while my dad turns sideways to face you and calmly states that Hitler should come back for a few years because he would know what to do , and then he nods as if he just stated the most basic undeniable truth.
Everybody mostly keeps to themselves.
Except dad, who, last time we spoke, was staunchly eurosceptic. From what I can tell he's cross with them because they're regulating his vapes & vaping accessory business, and I found a blog article from him from a few years ago where he straight up likened the EU to USSR.
My family is comprised of practicing Catholics, so they're mostly moderate conservatives. One of my uncles who married into the family is a staunch atheist though so he sometimes gets into arguments with the others. My generation in the family is more moderate liberal-we're still mostly practicing Catholics but unlike the older generations we're more open to stuff like LGBT issues etc.
Personally, I'm a definite moderate. I've been both Conservative and Liberal and saw both sides as either corrupt or just incompetent. I considered Hillary to be just as bad as Trump during the 2016 election and made the choice to not vote for either of them.
My Mom and I have gotten into arguments regarding Trump. She's pro-Trump. She admits she doesn't entirely like him but will say that she'd rather have him in office then anyone who is pro-abortion. She buys into the whole 'fake news' thing by saying any press that portrays Trump negatively can't be trusted. I on the other hand, while also personally against abortion, would rather have not have Trump or any other Conservative in office because I consider the pros to outweigh the cons.
There's a bit more to it then that but I'll leave it at this for now.
My family isn't as interested in politics as I am, my dad being the most 'apathetic' I guess you could say. My mum's always had to vote in his name, I think. Since I've gotten into politics in the past few years, he likes to talk about though. He likes to pretend that he has controversial views to annoy me and my mum. We all think that's funny though. In reality I think he's just a center kind of person (by Dutch standards of course).
My mum is center-left, she grew up in a family that pretty much always voted for the social-democratic party. My younger sister isn't very interested in politics, but she's pretty left-wing. Same for my older brother.
Discussions are never uncomfortable or anything. It's usually just funny because my dad decides to be contrarian for the laughs.
We dont talk politics in my house.
My family are lefties for the most part and we all tend to agree on most topics with some exceptions
My grandparents have that kinda out of touch reactionary thing going on, but they don't really think about their politics much but tend to be very conservative, but not actually in support of the Tories.
The most you will get from my nan is the odd weird comment like "brexit is a good thing because it means we will stop giving all the indians free houses and cars" that will spark a brief discussion that she will completely ignore until an opportunity to change the subject arises.
My twin brother seems to share a lot of my views but tries too hard to be ~punk rock~ and occasionally comes out with some weird nonsense like "I don't ever want to get a job, not cos i'm lazy, but because I don't want the gubment to steal my wages for their evil system!!" despite being a vocal supporter of things that run on taxation like the welfare system and the NHS.
He also had a weird phase where he would talk about how much worse Clinton was than Trump because she would start world war three or some shit, and absolutely would not back down about it, but that's what happens when you get your fix of international politics from Youtube videos and facebook meme pages I guess.
My younger brother doesn't seem to care much about politics, so we don't talk about it much, but I get the impression that he really hates his working class roots and is constantly trying to appear far more wealthy than he actually is.
He spends a fortune on awful Supreme designer tat, and never wanted to bring his friends to my mums when he lived at home because we didn't have carpets in the hallway and it made us "look poor".
My mum is the one who I actually disagree with most often, but discussions are usually pretty civil, even if I deliberately try and annoy her (which I often do).
She's staunchly anti-abortion and holds all sorts of weird anti-vaccine views. I've always suffered with mental health issues, and I'm pretty sure my brother is genuinely a little bit retarded- and my mother thinks this was caused by the shots we had as kids.
She basically drank too much of the Andrew Wakefield Koolaid and thinks him losing his medical licence was some kind of politically motivated retribution for speaking the truth about vaccination.
I don't have a dad, but I briefly had a stepfather who was a total piece of shit who threatened to kill me if I ever became "one of them poofters", sincerely glad he was out of the picture before I started developing my own political views.
Most of my family are hard right-wing conservatives. Me and my two sisters are probably the only left-leaning folk. Though, most of my family generally tends to keep their political thoughts to themselves (thankfully), my mom and her side of the family love to parrot Fox News and post stupid conservative memes on their Facebook feeds.
Trying to hold a political conversation with my mom is completely pointless and always one-sided. She'll just talk endlessly, constantly repeating her own points ad nauseum, and if you try to chime in with your own opinion at any point, she'll simply start speaking louder and continue to talk over you. She also constantly talks about how immigrants are only wanting over here "so they can get on our social security and welfare!!!" and stupid shit like that.
I might feel like the black sheep of the bunch at times, but then if they don't like me speaking how I really feel, they shouldn't have raised me to try and be a good person.
My dad is incredibly right wing and tries to influence the rest of us into his views. Only when I left to start my own life did I realise just how wrong he was, now though me and him debate trump, Brexit and other right wing BS like "Germany finally got what they wanted because they now own Europe".
It's one hell of a ride
My mother is a staunch socialist and as always voted Labour (UK Labour that is) attributed to being working class all her life. I'm a little more center than her but we see eye to eye 90% of the time. Except for brexit, she's a leave (but regrets it now because of the farce it's become) and I'm a hard line remain.
As for my dad? Fuckin who knows!
My dad watches Bill Maher and John Oliver so I'm assuming he is fairly left leaning. My mom hates Trump but I don't know anything else.
Well. We're all liberals.
Pretty civil. We mostly agree on everything politically. I think the only rough patch is that my dad's sorta' anti-gun and I'm not really. But usually he sees my point that it's a position that hurts the left a lot politically.
My dad and I agree on a lot of things, most things honestly. I picked up a lot of my views from him and he's a very progressive person. We're both what I guess the kids these days call "liberal-conservatives", so we're very liberal in social questions (LGBTQ rights, womens rights, workers rights and generally in favor of all things socialism) but conservative in other aspects. He's more economically conservative meaning he wants to see tax reforms that could benefit his personal finances (plus, he runs a business) where as I'm more culturally conservative (I have a massive interest in Scandinavian history and I want to basically give museums infinite money to just store every artifact we can find ever and let people see them for free because I want the cultural heritage to live on and be easily accessible for all. Overall him and me never differ on things though and we have very healthy discussions about politics, especially last year around election time.
My mom on the other hand is a racist redneck piece of trash. One time her and I were sitting at the dinner table when she looks outside and goes "Oh!". I turn to look and I see there's a colored family leaving one of the apartments across the street. I go "... what?" fearing the worst. She responds "It got so dark outside all of a sudden!" and laughs. That about summarizes any discussion I have with her about anything... at all, really.
I don't talk to my extended family but my mom is left leaning progressive with some exceptions. My dad is bootstrap conservative (understandably so, he grew up a dirt poor immigrant) but always votes Democrat because he doesn't like Republicans but he votes for cooperate Dems. My brother is a conspiracy theorist centrist.
I'll bicker with all of them except my brother but we don't really fight, just debate
My dad used to think Trump was a good thing and would be a fresh change, but he quickly reeled that thought in and now hates his fucking guts, the rest of my family (aunts, uncles etc) all think he's hot shit and are actually for the border wall :/ my mom seems apathetic to politics in general but even she thinks Trump is an idiot.
Political discourse in my family has been limited to my mum proclaiming Hitler a genius very loudly in a chipshop once, and me having to, also very loudly, tell her to shut the fuck up.
Honestly, there really isn't much discourse in my family. Mine are the rare baby boomers who aren't absolute shit about things (I'm actually still on their cell plan because they recognize how expensive things are). My mom and step-dad, 56 and 61 respectively, are both democrats and will sit down and research out the candidates/proposed bills in order to decide who to vote for. Hell, both of them hoped Bernie would have been able to be president, if that says anything. Talking politics is relatively pain free since we agree on most topics. The only things that are kinda "Ehhhhhh" to talk about are LGBT related things.
Impossible, as I imagine most people's is.
Everyone in the immediate family is pretty much on the same part of the political compass, so a bit more southern center-left, but we have wildly different ideas on how things should be solved. Things get heated at times but for the most part it's fairly constructive.
The extended family, however, is a cesspool of hard-right republicans who all joined different military branches after high school. One got fired from their job because they were posting so much political vitriol to coworkers on facebook, and insulting them when they ever came to a disagreement. They're the kinds of people who leave fox news running in the background, then every so often look up and nod before going back to whatever they were doing. (It looks just as weird in person as it sounds.)
Overall my family is probably right-leaning Christians. Though, me and a few or relatives are closeted agnostics and/or atheists. We usually keep a small level of communication with one another to talk about the antics of the rest of the family. Its become more of a problem due to my mom's growing religious mania, and also the local pastor is the "SOCIALISM WILL BRING FORTH DESTRUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY" types. Funny enough her mom is pretty liberal when it comes to viewing things and is Christian. But could care less of what the hell you believe in, as long as you're a good person.
During the whole Trump 2016 bullshit. I pretty much told my mom that i didn't like Trump at all. Followed by her chewing my ass out and saying that everyone will hate me for not liking him. In which i replied, "Who gives a shit?". It would not surprise me if my Mom thinks Trump is like "God's Chosen".
Dad watches Alex Jones and listens to AM talk radio. Mom voted for Trump because he's Christian. One holiday, I brought the the party game 'Secret Hitler' because it's simple and fun. My extended family refused to play because the game is Liberals vs Fascists, and thus, obviously the game was liberal propaganda formulated to convince the public that all conservatives were actually "bad nazis".
Political discourse is an impossibility.
I don't speak to my mother or father anymore but from the opinions they expressed they were mostly pretty centrist. Both of them live in the UK and have done for a while (father is Scottish/Irish/Norwegian, mother is German/Dutch) and both were against Brexit and against Scottish Independence. I don't know what parties they voted for although I remember them saying they used to vote Conservative when they were my age but don't anymore. They were both practising Christians (as am I) but made a point of not letting their religious beliefs influence their voting habits as they believed faith was a private matter.
My extended family are spread all over Europe and North America but seem to express mostly left-leaning political opinions.
My brother and sister don't vote and don't care about politics.
tl;dr extended family are left-leaning Christians who are pretty chill.
My mom is a hardcore right winger whoes extremely racist/xenophobic and believes that muslims are planning a massive gennocide against the white people. Gets all his info from fox news or facebook memes/news posted by trump support groups. Believes obama/dems/hillary are the ones causing him any kind of distress even when republicans hold supreme majority. Thinks all black people are criminals or want something for nothing. At one point he stopped watching one local news channel we have watched since i was a tot, just because he thought they were too liberal for not sucking the president's cock 24/7. "Tolerates" the lgbt community, but acts like them wanting equal rights is them wanting to he above everyone else. When the gay marriage thing kicked off, he constantly said it was gay people being snowflakes wanting to be better than everyone else.
My mom parrots the same as him, used to be centrist till 2016 with trump showing up with propaganda. She also only gets her news from facebook, which she follows the groups my dad does.
Sister was pretty liberal, but then she hooked up and got engaged by a redpiller who has pretty much brainwashed her into believing in globalists and gays wanting more rights ect.
Whole family is like my dad, the only exception is my center left aunt who is pretty awesome to talk to politics wise, but she moved out of this hellhole of conservative retards.
My immediate family skirts on the left, I am the only one in the house that holds genuinely leftist views. Nobody likes to talk about politics because we all agree that the state of things are too miserable
to really share any of it. Not much that we don't already know.
At home my mom hates trump but agrees with a bunch of his racist things (what if there are ISIS members in the caravan!?) even though she only looks at cnn.
My dad doesn't ever talk about politics I assume he's aligned with canada's NDP.
My brother is as malleable as silly putty but thankfully his friend became a fascist so fast that my brother got completely alienated by the points and ideology like suddenly one of your friends murderously hates your trans friend and your bi friend you're gonna cut him out.
My BF really fucking sucks he went all the way with youtube reactionaries starting with Sargon and culminating with agreeing with a blatantly fascist girl saying that the polish independence day march organized by the polish fash was essentially OK/good because he believes all media are liars which gave me a months-long breakdown. I made a video in response to convince him and it worked but the event destroyed my opinion of him and it's never recovered. Arguing with him is like trying to pick up a gnat with chopsticks because he jumps to other topics when it looks like he doesn't have something to say back like in 2016 he'd jump to the topic of Sweden, now it's Venezuela. We're still together but the love is gone most of the time for me and I've been close to breaking up for a long time. I blame myself for letting him get so fucked up without me intervening.
As for his opinion of me, I saw how bad he was getting and Trump took off the political correctness that hides people's lives being destroyed by politics and I went super far left (past bernie, past aoc, past corbyn etc) looking for answers so now he thinks I'm insane but he still loves me.
Not quite politics but my parents are vaguely anti-vax. They dont really seem to be able to make a point other than "we shouldnt trust the medical industry" (which isnt wrong). But thankfully my parents dont have anyone they need to make a vaccination call for so its almost a non-issue.
My brother believes in communism and believes he should take it upon himself to go on Facebook and call people out for being right-wing racists when he himself used to call people racial and homophobic slurs as a get-out-of-argument-free card unironically and had a Doug toy from McDonalds he drew on with a sharpie to turn him into Hitler holding a book titled Mein Kampf that he had displayed on his shelf for years. He now owns the Communist Manifesto and also owns a crossbow, and thinks it's Donald Trump's fault he cannot afford rent despite having several jobs over the years and refuses to relocate to an area that may be cheaper to live in and offer higher average wages. He supports Antifa despite not knowing what exactly it is they do. Still strongly supports Hillary Clinton.
My sister believes that all black people should be killed and is why she bought a gun - because you can "never trust them". To her, Hitler was totally right about the Holocaust despite her firm believe that it simultaneously did not happen. She exclusively browses /soc/ and voted Trump unironically to "own the libs". She watched a documentary on Hitler and came out of it saying he's a "pretty cool guy" and stated that it's a shame that we made him commit suicide. She legitimately believes PizzaGate happened and is constantly angry that Hillary was never thrown in prison for it. She hates immigrants and wants them thrown out of the country. She dates a first-generation American whose parents can barely speak English - one entered illegally. Her boyfriend has the same opinions as her, somehow. They both fall asleep unironically watching the "change my mind" videos about transgender and laughing their asses off like it was the best episode of The Office. They both have spent obscene amounts on anime figurines and (at least her boyfriend) Magic the Gathering cards.
My stepdad never makes clear his political interests but openly supported Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul in the past, stating that Ron Paul was the best-case scenario and Bernie would be second-best. He unironically owns Alex Jones merch and was one of his long-time fans, even spanning back to the days when Alex Jones would "sneak into the Bohemian Grove/secret military bases and film it". He tried to get me to be interested in "the truth about 9/11" when I was 13. He still believes chemicals are in the water because of chemtrails and thinks most politicians are lizard aliens from Planet X.
My mom is a liberal that hates anything Donald Trump-related, and gets a kick watching republicans get mad at things. She and my sister do not get along. She actively thinks that republicans are ruining the world and country, and a strong believer that ever since white people came to America they have been busy fucking everything up. We're heavily of Swiss and German descent.
I am leaning more toward the left and try not to bring up politics around anybody else because it ends up in a shitshow. I am not exaggerating on any of this.
discourse between me and my mother is mostly healthy, although she has an extremely complicated spirituality/philosophy that takes about four days straight of talking to explain properly, which usually informs her political stance-- economic conservative/centrist, socially liberal (although she's been very slowly adjusting to trans people, like, in general)
discourse between me and my father doesn't exist, we don't have conversations on anything, let alone politics, but from what i've gathered over the years he's mostly apathetic/centered, with a bit of social conservatism that comes from a pretty harsh upbringing in the backwoods of Tennessee
discourse between me and my grandmother is a hellfuck shitmess; she used to be, like, your classic American "fuck Bush with a rusty axe, Bill Maher is the man, legalize recreational and medical marijuana nationwide" liberal but around Trump's election she ""reconnected"" with some of our family out in New Orleans and became a Facebook slave who puppets dumb far-right nonsense
My parents and I agree on pretty much everything, I have relatives who are mormons and even they aren't too bad and voted for Hillary.
My cousin's family has always been Republican, but I don't care about the parents nearly as much as my cousin, because he's younger than me and he's just kind of a libertarian asshole. I don't talk to him much but I don't wanna know what kind of edgy BS he's teaching his kids.
My family is all African American so political discussions are pretty on point since we all fall somewhere left of the spectrum. Common topics are what vaguely/blatantly racist thing did a Republican say this week to demonize us, general corruption, and how various systems are failing us and the communiy.
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