My mum is a silent tory type but my dad can be quoted as saying "I'd vote for the BNP but it'd be a wasted vote". Personally I'm incredibly left compared to most of my family as I lie somwhere between the Green Party and Class War anarchists. My brother would be a fascist if he wasn't so politically inept. My sister shares most of my views but more moderately. I have most disagreements with my dad.
We're all pretty much bogstandard liberal (Lib Dem) except my grandmother I hate to say, like many older people seem to, gives into the usual UKIP shite (I blame newspapers), even though my granddad was a Labour voter all his life. Personally I'm liberal but I find myself erring towards the left more and more lately.
We don't really talk about politics in my immediate family. I know my dad used to be more conservative in the 90s but is drifting towards complete indifference nowadays. Like he used to be slightly homophobic back in the day but nowadays all he said to Finland having a gay presidential candidate was "I guess times are changing, doesn't really affect me in any way". I know so little about my sisters or my mom politically I'm not even sure if they watch the news.
I can't really honestly know though, Finns have a time-honored tradition of being quiet about things. Political questions used to be highly personal back in the day, and they still are to a lot of people nowadays.
Where it gets sad though is with my cousin. She's German born to a Finnish dad and a German mom. We used to get along well back in the day, but then she met a U.S marine in a bar in Germany and got married and moved to the U.S. Over the years her husband has turned her into a hardline republican and now she believes all forms of socialism are communism and says racists stuff all the time. We don't really talk much anymore and when we do I avoid getting into politics as much as possible because it probably wouldn't end too well.
Her dad meanwhile is just fucking goofy. He goes to Finland - America association meetings dressed like a Texan rancher and believes Trump is the best thing in the world. And he doesn't understand half a word of English. He also supports every nutty right wing populist in the country.
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