Politics In The Home

[The-Great-One]

Recently I made a thread in the General Forum entitled Growing Up In Your Family. It discussed religion and how it affected the different members of Newgrounds childhood and/or teenage years. At some points politics were brought up within these religious backgrounds.

That made me question then, how do political backgrounds come to be? What do you classify yourself as? Were you always part of your party? Did your parents have any effect on your politics? Also how would you define your political beliefs and your party?

[Gustavos]

I always thought my parents were funny when they spoke of politics when I was young. They're Republican Catholics who seem like they're ashamed of holding pro-choice views and other liberal ideals. Last presidential election, we all wanted Obama to win, but they instead voted McCain. What seemed like a practical joke at first turned into a major concern I held for people like this. You can't allow yourself to be dictated by political, or religious affiliation. Voting in favor of this proposition or this candidate because your group conscience demands it. I'm truly afraid that this phenomenon can and will effectively ruin this country at random intervals in random areas. My generation consists of boys and girls claiming that they don't follow any politics because it either doesn't effect them, or their vote is insignificant. But I get the feeling that we're not the only ones violating our right to vote.

I don't consider myself part of any party. I won't have the right to vote for three more months though, and I'm gonna have to put myself as Independent, as impossibly cliched as that sounds. Even if there were a group that shared my ideals, I would never align myself with them in fear that I'll end up as chained as my parents seem to be. An open-mind is the only one built for politics, no matter how insignificant its effect on the field is.

[bismuthfeldspar]

no 2 people agree on absolutely everything

[Sense-Offender]

My parents didn't really discuss politics when I was a kid, but my mother is definitely a liberal. And I believe my father is slightly right leaning, as is most of his side of my family. My opinions tend to be those of a liberal. I'm pro choice, pro weed legalization, pro marriage equality, pro stem cell research, against any religious motivation in the legal system, against teaching intelligent design in schools, etc. etc. The likes of Gingrich and Santorum sicken me.

[Iron-Hampster]

Dad was very hands off with my ideals, mom was a Liberal, but not extreme. I started out as a hard core socialist like 90% of kids my age at the time then slowly became more and more libertarian. So me and my mom have some disagreements now but on social issues not so much (I'm just more hands off). Dad probably leans more towards Thatcher while I gravitate more towards Rand but my family is still Atheist.

[Camarohusky]

I don't remember my parents being very political with me. We never went to church and religion wasn't part of our lives. Perhaps the biggest thing my parents taught me was stubbornness and to believe my own thing.

In high school I was very super liberal. As I grew older and met with more true hipster super liberals I began to develop a disdain for them. I developed into a mixed bag of very liberal ideas mixed with some wuite conservative ideas, much in between, with a apathy toward some issues, a legalist outlook, and a strong unwillingness to rock the boat.

This mixed bag led me to be called a neo-conservative on Iron-Hamspter's political test put up a week ago. I got single digits in every category except evironment/human where I was a 46 on the human side (largely based out of my apathy and unwillingness to force others to cater to my wants).

- I am very socially liberal.
- I respect religion, but believe it and government are two separate spheres.
- I belieive criminal laws are too weak and should be harsher.
- I believe the legalization campaign is nothing more than an amalgam of losers trying to legitimize their bad habit.
- I am a centrist when it comes to economics, knowing that trickledown economics is acrock of shit, while also believing a free market is a good economic system.
- The evinronment is more about conserving economic resources than stopping global warming or saving the whales.
- I am very skeptical of conspiracy theories.
- I am very skeptical of protests and their true motivation.
- I believe diplomacy should always be the first and foremost goal of foreign relations, but that economic imperialism is A-OK, and war is dirty, but acceptable later resort.
- I also believe that any discussion worth having is worth being honsetly argued, and will often argue against sides I agree with just so that a true discussion is had. Sometimes I do such a good job I end up learning something and adjusting my opinion.

[Ericho]

I really wasn't raised in a big political household. We mostly just learned basic morals and I don't think I can remember the first time in my life I heard about Democrats and Republicans. With politics, it doesn't have to come until later in life, because it's only until the age of 18 that you're allowed to vote, which is probably the most important thing you'll do involving politics.

[aListers]

At 5/6/12 11:12 AM, The-Great-One wrote: Recently I made a thread in the General Forum entitled Growing Up In Your Family. It discussed religion and how it affected the different members of Newgrounds childhood and/or teenage years. At some points politics were brought up within these religious backgrounds.

That made me question then, how do political backgrounds come to be? What do you classify yourself as? Were you always part of your party? Did your parents have any effect on your politics? Also how would you define your political beliefs and your party?

I wasn't raised in a political household. With a single mum there wasn't much time for politics and she didn't care about it either. My mum is an athiest but that's not unusual in the UK and therefore doesn't affect any political outcomes. I was liberatarian when I was young but I grew out of that eventually because I started to understand the world a bit better.
Mark later came into my life and a couple of years later I got into politics. He did influence me a bit I guess. He was centralist with a slight left lean but would always change who he voted for in every election. He wouldn't take a political stance. From how he told me things were I wouldn't support a single party. I change my support of a party by their policies rather than how much I trust them unlike mark.
I don't like how people in this country vote on the labour party all their life and their childrens life. Although you could say it keeps the tories out of power, I think that some 3rd parties would make much better leaders than the main 2 parties allied with the lib dems. I think the SNP in scotland have proved that.
I'm slightly more liberatarian than most of the people I know but Overall I'd just consider myself liberal which is centre-left.
I want cannabis legalised,
believe that the internet should be completely unregulated,
want to keep church and state seperate,
believe that gun control is a good thing and should be kept (If I was in america I would respect the amendments though),
Think the NHS is a good thing and should be kept nationalised,
Want schools to be free all the way up to university,
want train services nationalised,
I want capital punishment to be brought back for mass murder,
Think war should be avoided unless it's unavoidable,
am against trade with china (moral reasons),
think there are too much laws and not enough is being done to punish people for them
and fully support freedom of speech to the point racist jokes should be acceptable but not racial assault.
The more I think about it, the more I sound like a labour voter. Nonetheless I tend to support the centralist parties such as the SNP and the liberal democrats. I could never work as a polititian. My policies are too unrealistic. I do have some common sense so I think what I've put down here are too ideal. I know they can't all happen in this economic condition.

[Entice]

At 5/7/12 07:58 AM, bismuthfeldspar wrote: no 2 people agree on absolutely everything

What if they're clones or identical twins?

[Iron-Hampster]

At 5/9/12 07:01 PM, bgraybr wrote:

At 5/7/12 07:58 AM, bismuthfeldspar wrote: no 2 people agree on absolutely everything

What if they're clones or identical twins?

twins are siblings and siblings argue all the time

and clones might both have the same memories and there for both be convinced that they are the original and the other is the copy.

[Camarohusky]

At 5/9/12 07:01 PM, bgraybr wrote: What if they're clones or identical twins?

Have you ever seen identical twins agree on much at all? If anything, I'd say they're more prone to disagreement than a random pick of any two other people in the world.