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« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2019, 11:06:23 PM » |
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Also, here is how I would summarize each of their views:
Dad- An odd mix of views. He's overall pretty Trumpist, but he was a medical malpractice lawyer for a while so he would vote Democratic out of fear of tort reform. He's generally pretty conservative, but is more liberal on stuff like guns.
Mom- A former small-government Republican who became disenchanted with conservatism in the early 2000s and has steadily grown more liberal. She's a women's march style liberal at this point, as her social views have become more and more extreme.
Dad's Dad- He grew up in a poor coal-mining town in Northeast Pennsylvania but eventually became a very successful lawyer, so his politics reflect different backgrounds. He's a Catholic ancestral Democrat, but very socially conservative, so he drifted more Republican.
Dad's Mom- Basically the same as her husband, but she seems to have become Republican a little earlier (probably due to not having the preoccupation with tort reform as much)
Mom's Dad- He was a small business owner and a staunch anti-tax Republican from exurban North Carolina who was active in a Baptist church.
Mom's Mom- I find her politics interesting because I don't know many like her. She is extremely active in her Baptist church (albeit it is less fundamentalist than many Baptist churches) and is probably quite socially conservative on a personal level, but has been a loyal Democrat (including being pro-choice as a matter of policy). She seems to have some level of discomfort with the far-left wing of the Democratic Party (i.e. she didn't understand why my mom wouldn't like a t-shirt with the American flag saying "if this offends you, I'll help you pack") and would say that she doesn't agree with homosexuality, but she is extremely anti-Trump and still a loyal Democrat.
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