How similar are your political positions to those of your parents'?

[Cold Highway]

My mother is pretty much apolitical, while my father a Vietnam Vet is more of a populist who hates the government more than I do. We rarely bring up politics in my house.

 

[Hoplite]

My mother is pretty much apolitical, while my father a Vietnam Vet is more of a populist who hates the government more than I do. We rarely bring up politics in my house.

That's a scary thought coming from someone with "death to Socialists" in his sig

 

[Mell]

I am generally more left leaning, while my parents are more right leaning.

 

[Zyphlin]

From my mother, significantly different. She's a rather far right conservative, including in the social spectrum, and while there's a number of things we generally agree on there's a greater number that we either disagree or disagree on the extent.

From my dad, somewhat different. We were very close to the same ideology pre-9/11, as he was a very libertarian-esque republican with hawkish tendancies. Since 9/11 he's become far more hawkish, and far more willing for enhancements to the state in the name of security, while still remaining very libertarian in regards to just about any other domestic policies. However he's generally a pretty level headed and intelligent thinker, who can be swayed and tends to be good at also swaying me at times to his side as well. In large part because he knows his stuff as he lives and breathes it, having gotten into private security shortly after 9/11 (after failing to be able to re-enlist due to a cancerous grouping of cells that was removed shortly before hand) and now currently is part of and/or leads security details for a number of the Saudi royal family currently residing in the U.S. and continually researches and keeps up to date in regards to the major happenings abroad and domestically concerning terrorism and homeland security. Its amazing what someone with a good grasp of the situation and a plethora of real knowledge can do with regards to swaying how you think; able to throw out facts that aren't typical talking points and are far mroe well reasoned.

 

[Cold Highway]

That's a scary thought coming from someone with "death to Socialists" in his sig

There is plenty of evidence that children dont become identical to their parents.

 

[Dav]

Really, though, a lot of my socio-political views are my dad's, verbatim.
Nearly everything I know, I've learned from him. He's a very smart man.

Basically, this.
My dad is probably the main reason why I'm even into politics.
My mom has mostly the same views as him, but is mostly apolitical.

 

[Fiddytree]

My own parents were conservatives who turned liberal due to personal circumstances they experienced with our family. I started making the opposite track, moving liberal to more conservative. With regard to specific political positions and cultural issues, for the most part we are quite similar, but there are issues that spring up that show our different outlooks.