You, family and friends politics.

[Ebowed]

My parents are both leftist, but motivated by very different concerns (environmentalism and economic justice, respectively, though neither disagree with the other on either, and both lean socially conservative).  Extended family is where differences become apparent: on one side, evangelical fundamentalists, and on the other, impoverished Catholics.  My friends, like most people, are concerned with politics only where it directly concerns them (that is, they support welfare programs and oppose social authoritarianism).