Are your siblings similar politically to you?

[downtown]

I'm significantly more conservative than both of my sisters. One is 25 and a rather knee-jerk liberal. She's a professional health advocate. The other is an 18 year old quasi Hipster art student.

I'm the Alex P. Keaton of the family, which is kinda funny, given my background and professional work history. I blame TFA for ruining me.

 

[SuperJay]

Yeah, my younger brother and I have pretty similar views, though he's less political than I am. We're about four years apart, both in our 30s.

 

[Tani Coyote]

My sister's right-wing, SUPPOSEDLY. She once said she doesn't believe in gay marriage, and also has on and off bouts with religious belief. Currently, Edward Cullen has taken the place of Jesus.

She's a declared Republican, though she did that primarily to curry favor with my father. She's also shallow. Like my cousin, she said "taxes are stupid" and still said there should be none even when I pointed out how they benefit from taxes in every walk of life. Furthermore, she was pro-McCain solely because my Dad said "if Obama comes in, he'll raise taxes so I can't buy you as much stuff." ...dear god. I lost so much respect for her that day.

My brother is a Democrat to the max. I like to troll IRL and trigger debates between him and my mom, dad, or uncle whenever I get the chance. It's very lulzy. He's pro higher taxes, very anti-Bush, etc. I dunno if he really thought out his views or if he's just being hip. It could also be the influence of his very liberal fiancee.

I know their mentality tends to be "tax the rich" rather than anything meaningful.

 

[Karalysia]

nvm plz delte.

 

[The Yankee]

I have no siblings. And I don't really recall my cousins uttering anything related to politics...so I can't say. I would imagine, if they got into it, that they would probably be fairly in the Democratic column in most aspects. Which means that there would be some points of agreement, but they wouldn't be in sync.

 

[Narz]

I have a much older adopted brother. Last I remember he listened to Rush Limbaugh & was quite conservative. Maybe he's gotten a bit more in-tune in his old age, dunno, we only talk ever few years or so & never about politics.

 

[Dachs]

I have no real political opinions, my 17-year-old sister is pretty liberal but I don't really care enough to find out how much, and my 9-year-old brother is a big unknown.

 

[Tee Kay]

My sibling is apolitical.

 

[Arwon]

My sister is generally as left wing as me, possibly moreso on economic issues. We defaulted to being fairly typical atheistic, tolerant, non-posh kiddies I suppose.

But she's also in the Defence Force, and so her views on war and foreign policy are quite different to mine.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

My oldest half brother is pretty much the same as my dad politically, typically a very partisan Republican. He loves his talk radio. He tend to focus his concerns on the national debt more than taxes though. I remember him writing a letter to the editor once calling for spending cuts and arguing that tax cuts should wait until the budget is under control. He was very upset when the "socialist" healthcare bill passed, lamenting that his children will never have the chance to experience capitalist America. (His wife is from a very Progressive family, but she is a rather demure woman whom tends to get board with discussions of politics and does not seem to have opinions of her own.)

I don't really know my other half brother's politics. I would guess they are about the same, but he is much less outspoken. I know he votes Republican at least most of the time.

I don't think I've ever heard my half brothers bring religion into politics, although my father does all the time. This might be because they remain moderate Methodists wheres he is a born again Southern Baptist.


My sister does not usually think for herself when it comes to politics. She typically just goes along with whatever my dad says, but if she has heard me voice an opinion recently she'll copy my view instead. (She has stated that my positions typically seem more fully thought out.) Often if she hears a politician claim to be a born again christian she will automatically support him without listening to or considering actual policies. Areas where she disagrees with my dad include her support for allowing homosexuals to get civil units with equal legal status to marriage and not seeing any reason to continue DADT. After being assigned to do a paper on it she decided that it would be better to legalize marijuana, but she doesn't really think about the issue from a constitutional point of view and would keep most drugs illegal. She considers the SI system vastly superior to the imperial system and wants the US to make the transition faster. She personally does not like making decisions for herself, and would rather have an authority figure take care of her and tell her what to do.

 

[Masada]

Umm... I guess my sister is a latte-sipping-liberal-greenie but that's suspicion more than anything. I couldn't even tell you what side of politics the darling is on. It isn't something I talk about all that much or care about particularly either.

 

[onedreamer]

My brother and I think alike. Note that hating a President isn't what I consider a political opinion. We're talking of general political trends here.

 

[Cashie]

I generally don't talk politics with my sisters (except for the eldest, who talks of little else) as far as I know, I'm much further to the left than any of them - and the polar opposite of said sister; who is a member of the National Party (and lives in Sydney ).

My mum called me a "traitor" for voting Labor in state election years ago.

(I normally vote Green and they vote for the Coalition)

 

[classical_hero]

For some reason my brother votes differently from me, but we do have rather similar political views. I voted CDP and he voted Labor in the lower house and Greens in the upper house, when Greens generally do not fit his views, but he is influenced quite a bit from a friend who is very much liberal compared to both of us, the small "l" not the big "L" king over here.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

You're too young to have real political opinions too Dommy

Brothers are 12 and 8. I'm 15.

But that wasn't my point. I am quite sure there are 12 year olds (Not sure about 8 year olds) who have legitimate political views. My brothers just really don't.

And my point wasn't that there was something wrong with their political views, but that they really haven't developed many. Opposition to abortion would be a given however.

Political opinions should be reserved for voting age children. With that said my oldest brother (19) is far right wing Catholic, my next oldest sibling is my sister who is a liberal agnostic she is 16. We are pretty diverse.

"Talking politics" is something that was a pretty normal part of my family culture. After a meal, the women would stay in the kitchen and do the dishes. I was the only child and so was allowed to go into the living room with the men and listen to them discuss politics. That's not to say the women didn't also discuss politics; they just didn't often do it at the same time.

From a very early age, I realized that voting was this Mysterious Adult Thing that kids were not allowed to do - so of course, I wanted to do it. I couldn't wait until I was 18 and could vote. The morning of my 18th birthday, my grandmother woke me up, and said "Happy birthday - now you can vote for Lougheed." (a joke on her part - Peter Lougheed was the Conservative Premier of Alberta, and there is no way that ANYBODY in my dad's side of the family would vote Conservative!)

So I started developing political ideas really early in life, and had a marvelous social studies teacher in junior high school who figured that 11-14 year-old kids were definitely NOT too young to learn about how politics works. I credit him and my grandparents with nurturing my ongoing interest in politics (and that teacher, 30+ years later, is currently on my local school board! ).

So it's ridiculous to say that kids shouldn't have political opinions before they're of voting age. In fact, I'm among those who think the voting age should be lowered to 16.

I don't know, the closest things I have to siblings are two cats. I think they are part of the "Food and Sleep" party.

I don't have siblings either. But there was a hilarious Cheezburger lol today where a little kitten wanted to get hired by TSA because of all the patting down (kittens love physical contact with humans, you know ).

I'm significantly more conservative than both of my sisters. One is 25 and a rather knee-jerk liberal. She's a professional health advocate. The other is an 18 year old quasi Hipster art student.

I'm the Alex P. Keaton of the family, which is kinda funny, given my background and professional work history. I blame TFA for ruining me.

What's the TFA?

 

[Arwon]

(Teach for America?)

 

[NovaKart]

My sister lives in NYC and works in the arts so of course she's a hardcore latte liberal. I'm liberal too but where we differ is that she's into organic food and thinks everything is racist.

 

[Tani Coyote]

In fact, I'm among those who think the voting age should be lowered to 16.

I think it's funny how we trust kids to drive and consider them responsible enough to consent/not consent to sexual activity at age 16, but think certain video games, movies, and the vote should be kept out of their hands.

Oh, in many places you can hold jobs once you turn 16 as well. It's also a general drop-out age if I recall.

So.. 16 year olds are considered to be smart enough to:

1. Drive.
2. Consent to sexual activity and be responsible with children
3. Hold a job
4. Possibly ruin their future by dropping out

But they aren't wise enough to:

1. Vote
2. Join the military
3. Buy mature video games/watch mature movies
4. Possibly also, smoke?

Never mind that they do the last part illegally anyway if they really want to. Don't mention drinking is everywhere too.

The inconsistency in age rules is just laughable, really.

But that's another topic.

 

[Murky]

The majority of my relatives are ignorant conservative types.

Few went to college, many didn't graduate from High School
Many have lots of kids, of which many didn't finish High School─some still in grade school
Most are religious (Assembly of God Christians) and right-wing
Some are overt racists in public

I am not ashamed of them or anything like that. They just don't know any better...

 

[GhostWriter16]

I think it's funny how we trust kids to drive and consider them responsible enough to consent/not consent to sexual activity at age 16, but think certain video games, movies, and the vote should be kept out of their hands.

Oh, in many places you can hold jobs once you turn 16 as well. It's also a general drop-out age if I recall.

So.. 16 year olds are considered to be smart enough to:

1. Drive.
2. Consent to sexual activity and be responsible with children
3. Hold a job
4. Possibly ruin their future by dropping out

But they aren't wise enough to:

1. Vote
2. Join the military
3. Buy mature video games/watch mature movies
4. Possibly also, smoke?

Never mind that they do the last part illegally anyway if they really want to. Don't mention drinking is everywhere too.

The inconsistency in age rules is just laughable, really.

But that's another topic.

I find the fourth one on the second list to be a little inconsistent and the third a lot so, but I'm fine with the first two.

First of all, in the military, you can die. You can't go back on that, you can go back and get a diploma.

As for voting, when you do that, you help or hurt the whole country, not just yourself.

The fact that they even have laws about #3 is moronic.

#4, meh. I think that you should be allowed to use (But not buy) cigarettes at 14, and buy them at 16.