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Post by ishmael on Feb 11, 2022 21:31:25 GMT -5
In New England last couple of days ending in a family dinner tonight. Two sisters and a brother...
Brother is a Trump supporter.
Sister is an AOC liberal.
Other sister is a full-fledged conspiracy type, including the moon landing didn't happen. No kidding.
Great dinner with all the (loud, but polite) political talk you can imagine.
Anyone else got anything like this?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2022 10:56:59 GMT -5
In New England last couple of days ending in a family dinner tonight. Two sisters and a brother... Brother is a Trump supporter. Sister is an AOC liberal. Other sister is a full-fledged conspiracy type, including the moon landing didn't happen. No kidding. Great dinner with all the (loud, but polite) political talk you can imagine. Anyone else got anything like this? Kind of. My niece and her husband can't hear anything negative about Trump. While at their house for a holiday gathering, their then 13 year old son and I were having a polite conversation about Trump. My niece walked by and exclaimed, "No politics!" I had to laugh because her son had been fully indoctrinated into Trumpville and I will just giving him another viewpoint to consider. Eh. My other niece is pretty liberal and just a really good person. She's humorous and chill. Unlike her sister noted above. lol Two of my sisters seem to lean to the left. One of my sister's seems to be completely uninterested. My mother was Democrat - never voted for a Republican - but was a racist and a bigot. When my niece introduced the family to her African American girlfriend my mother had a double-whammy to accept - or not. lol I thought when one my sister's became engaged to an African American man she might change. Not really.
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Post by guido2 on Feb 12, 2022 11:00:38 GMT -5
These are interesting and kinda funny on how one's family can be so diverse.
What do they say "You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family"?
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Post by mrsmlh on Feb 12, 2022 11:10:33 GMT -5
My oldest son and oldest sister are a far right Trump supporters. My daughter, youngest son and 1 sister-in-law and brother-in-law are far left Bernie bros. 2 daughters-in-law and 1 sister-in-law could care less about politics. 1 sister-in-law and her kids are all Trump supporters. The rest of the family are pretty much center/left.
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Post by WKDWZD on Feb 12, 2022 11:35:44 GMT -5
When I read threads like this, I wonder, sometimes, whether politics is more of a game to some Americans. It's like when Brits all side with either Oxford or Cambridge for the annual university boat race, yet 90%of them have never been to either of those places, and wouldn't know which way round to sit in one of the boats, if they got close enought to one.  I always rooted for Oxford by the way. 
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2022 11:42:04 GMT -5
When I read threads like this, I wonder, sometimes, whether politics is more of a game to some Americans. What leads you to believe that we think it's a game?
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Post by WKDWZD on Feb 12, 2022 17:19:47 GMT -5
When I read threads like this, I wonder, sometimes, whether politics is more of a game to some Americans. What leads you to believe that we think it's a game? The rest of my post, which you did not quote, pretty much gives you my reasoning for coming to that assumption.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2022 18:03:15 GMT -5
What leads you to believe that we think it's a game? The rest of my post, which you did not quote, pretty much gives you my reasoning for coming to that assumption. I didn't quote it because it wasn't necessary. Politics isn't a sport. Many of us cheer for teams from states we have never visited. That's not odd. So, I ask again, what leads you to believe that Americans think that politics is a game?
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Post by alienrace on Feb 14, 2022 12:30:53 GMT -5
On my side of the family, my parents, sister, all cousins and such, all are pretty far-right other than my one cousin who is my age that is liberal as it gets. They all think he and I are both liberal, maybe because we've always been very close and played in bands, etc - but usually I think it's also because I tend to challenge a lot of the ridiculous far-right crap they spew when politics come up and I just can't keep my mouth shut, lol. The far-right mentality spans all generations on that side, and it's at times embarrassing to me when I hear the stuff they say.
On my wife's side, her sisters and their husbands, and her cousins (all male) are very far-right - basically all of the Gen-X'ers. The kids, most of them are all very far left and very, very vocal about it. My wife is further to the right than I am, but I wouldn't lump her in with her siblings and our in-laws. Our kids, unlike their cousins, are a little more open minded and independent - probably due to our influence, but with at least one it was a former boyfriend that got her out of the left-wing mentality a bit. My wife's parents, and a lot of their friends of that generation it seems, tend to be less concerned about right/left and more concerned if there's a Korean angle to it. They love Larry Hogan because his wife is Korean, stuff like that. In 2016 they kept telling everyone, vote for Hillary, "Trump no good!" her father would say. Then in 2020 they voted for Trump, no idea why - but it made some of the younger heads explode in the family, lol.
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Post by cowboyz on Feb 14, 2022 13:09:45 GMT -5
My sister, BIL, my husband, one nephew and my two boys are about the same as me, my brother is a little more to the right. Not sure about my SIL, she says nothing.
Three of my nephews are far left and they are very vocal about it, sometimes it's rude. We don't have family discussions about politics so I'm not sure why the three of them feel the need to inject it into some of our conversations. My oldest son who is younger than my nephews will call them on it.
My oldest nephew once said he could never talk to anyone who voted for Trump because they are (a lot of really unsavory words - really ugly words), my brother said he voted for Trump and my nephew has never talked to him since. My sister refuses to talk to her son about it. I find it disgusting that my nephew would do that but he lives in Los Angels so we don't see him often. I talk to him regularly because I love him, I don't hold it against him that he voted for Biden. Weird how that works.
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Post by ishmael on Feb 14, 2022 13:15:03 GMT -5
Somewhere in this interplay of politics among family members there is one helluva good book.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Feb 14, 2022 18:17:12 GMT -5
My family is, without exception that I am aware of, left of me. Most folks here consider me a leftist, but I'm not, really. Just left of them. I have a cousin who, every so often, ladles himself a dipper of conspiracy koolaid. Not in a dangerous way, at least as far as I can tell, but... odd. And they're usually not political conspiracies. Ideas like "oil companies are suppressing clean fusion energy", to name a recent example.
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