Are your children of the same political stance as you?

Yes, thank goodness. My DD is a quite vocal leftie, as are pretty much all of her friends. DS (13yo) is a bit young but I am certain that he will also vote left when he's old enough. DD and I took him to his first ever protest march earlier this year (under the pretence of "having brunch"), so the indoctrination is going well. 

Mine are more militantly left than me, sometimes I feel sorry for what I’ve unleashed on the world, and sometimes I am proud

They have yet to learn tact and “there is a time and a place”.

My college aged daughter is very liberal (and I thought was!) LOL She is very intelligent and has sound reasons for her beliefs, so I can support her right to have them. High school daughter is still finding her "place" but we share a lot of the same ideas.

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You really have my interest picqued. I’ve noticed all the times you use the term “far left” in posts here (negatively, until this post) and usually wonder what that means to you. Of course, the continuum of political ideology is interpreted differently by different people. (I questioned something recently where Bill Maher, Rosie O’Donnell and Michelle Wolf were called “radical” on FOX, which was just totally perplexing to me and would be to any liberal I know. Being abrasive doesn’t determine extremism on either side.) 

I’ve had a few clues to your interpretation of far left. There was your Walkaway thread and how leftists “come off.” And you once replied to a post here (yes, I looked it up) that included the words “no respect for human life, no personal responsibility, alienation, isolation, disconnect to family life, I want it now, Me me me,” and you replied that that description sounded like the far left platform.

Makes me curious about discussions when your full-on far left son espouses that platform...those ideals. Have you learned to understand those views better?

[And for the record, my children are even more liberal than my husband and me, and we’re very liberal; however, none of us is on the far left end of the continuum - comparing us to what I know of the extremes of liberalism. (Not that I agree that even they espouse the Culture of Nihilism that you identify as the full on far left world you know.)]

This describes DH, DD, and me. Our DS is the opposite. I really dislike the influence he has on our grandson.

Most of my extended family is the same, with the exception of one brother. I told him I love him too much to discuss politics with him.

All four of my girls are progressive liberal feminists. They teach me so much. My father is fiscally conservative, socially liberal and my mom was a card carrying, bra burning, radical lefty feminist of the 70s.

I don’t get the Seinfeld comment? But, yes my DD and I share the same overall political beliefs, however she’s further left than I am. Fundamentally we both believe people should be treated fairly and equally and should have their basic needs met before we go spending money on things like a military parade, for example. We do vary a bit on views regarding redistribution of wealth and health care. SO and his kids also share very similar beliefs.

We share the same political beliefs. There are only two republicans in our family...dh’s mother and one of his BILs. We don’t talk politics when we are with them.

I'm also fiscally conservative and socially liberal, but my 2 DDs are both way more conservative. My ex is very conservative. also. I'll say something sometimes and they'll both look at me with shock on their faces! We really don't discuss politics that much though.

my parents were socially liberal, fiscally conservative washingtonian republicans (dan Adams?).. but when bush 1 came in office, my dad left the republicans behind. two of my kids are more liberal than we are.. but my son is about where we are.. liberal.. but in this town, we are seen as moderate..

My husband and I are both Conservatives. Probably closer to libertarian than Republican right now. All four of our children and their spouses are conservatives, and so far, all grandchildren of voting age are conservatives also. We don't talk politics though when we are together. We have other things to discuss.

So far, my kids are pretty darn liberal. It is kind of wonderful.

This. 

My mother was batshit crazy and never identified as either party and could vote on a whim without much thought. There was never any consistency or logic to any of her stances. If she were still alive in 2016 she would have either joined the Bernie bandwagon or become a complete Trumpster, or dug out her matching beeline pantsuits and marched in Central Park, you could never know with her what would happen.

My dad was not registered in either party but he was a frequent Republican voter. He liked Reagan and Bush 1. He liked NJ Gov Tom Kean. But very so often he’d vote otherwise. He had a firm stance that the government should maintain a military and build infrastructure and spend his money wisely. Otherwise the government should mind their own business and keep their nose out of his business. He had already felt disenfranchised by the Republican Party before he died. He thought they had stuck thier hand too deeply into his wallet already at that point and weren’t fiscally responsible with their spending of HIS money. ( he always felt government spending was essentially OUR money and we should hold them accountable. He thought Bush 1 greatest failure was not ending Saddam then & there but he also thought Bush2 should never have started up where his father left off it wasn’t appropriate. He radically thought that politicians should have a set limit of money the could spend maximum. Period. Not a penny over that limit could be spent. He thought if they couldn’t spend more money they’d actually have to go talk to people.

I am a moderate. I used to lead slightly right, but I have migrated to the point where I’m not really leaning either way. I liked Reagan. But then again I liked Ross Perot too. I belive in fiscal responsibility in that the spending should be more transparent and we should know where our money goes. I am anti giant mega bills and would like it if Congress got back to voting on stuff more separately. There really is no party currently that matches my views at all. I’m always picking the lesser of the evils.

My son is a lot like me he is basically a center moderate. He just started voting and he spent his time researching the candidates and he votes thoughtfully & logically on the issues that matter to him at the time. He is in no way liberal but he doesn’t believe in anything the current Republican Party seems to stand for. He logically can not understand how the Republicans came up with Trump out of 17 candidates all of whom are more qualified for the job. On the other hand the NJ Democrats handed him Murphy as a candidate for Governor pand he thinks Murphy is a wacko and unqualified as well. He believes we should scrap our entire 2 party system in favor of something more like how New Zealand votes.

My DD is slightly left of center. She researches candidates and reads platforms like her brother but she also wants to like her candidate as well. She ads that slight emotional component to her voting. She started out as a complete independent moderate but then she has lived abroad twice and had the benefit of seeing how other places work. And the benefit of seeing how others see us. I think she would have migrated left slowly anyway but 2016 happened and she is squarely and securely a Democrat for the foreseable future. #stayingput