Do the majority of the members of your family share the same political beliefs?

Question

or do you often find yourself arguing with members of your family who are on the other side of the political fence?

Answer 1

Yes

Answer 2

Not even close.  My father and stepmother are diehard Republicans, I am fairly liberal.

My mother and my brothers don't care.

My father and I had enough problems while I was growing up; we avoid any subject that could bring arguments back into our much better relationship.

Answer 3

Yes we all do and all our friends as well. In this country it is hard not to.......

Answer 4

Yes, but only the family that stay in Europe,  and who never actually lived in SA.

Answer 5

The rest of my family seem to take after my parents. Frustratingly to me, they do not take any interest in politics. I doubt that they even go out to vote. Sometimes I wonder if they realise that it is not the NP in power anymore, but the ANC.

Answer 6

It is funny we brother and sisters share the same values .Ten of us . But the irony is our brother and sister -in- laws they are from different planets. We grew up open minded and tolerance was the key to our politics. They are lucky we have the tolerance to sit with them.They sure showed us the other side of the coin.We never talk politics when they visit any more.We up-set them with our openness and tolerance more than the politics.

Answer 7

We hardly discuss politics with my parents and siblings......

Answer 8

Yeah all my family shares the same view. I only argue with my uncle though, but I think he's one of those that will just say its blue cos you said its red. So I dont even waste my time anymore. . .

Answer 9

My close family yes, we are a very political family and we always speak openly about politics and although we have debates about certain issues we are all on the same side of the political fence...

Hubby and in-laws on the other hand seem to live in some kind of bubble, they don't watch the news unless the sky is falling (and then they will watch it on Sky news) and his parents only have opinions based on ...wait for it ... the LETTER page in the Citizen! I could scream it frustrates me so that they don't try to inform themselves and develop their own opinions or at least read a decent paper or even read that paper instead of just the front page headlines, the sport, the letter page and then doing the crossword!

Answer 10

We dont usually discuss politics , its usually just something that is in the headlines that are discussed from time to time so im not too sure on their standpoint..

Answer 11

Politics is always a huge topic of discussion. Should an outsider sit in one of our discussions, they will soon realise that Indians are indeed the biggest racists alive!

We dont like whites, blacks, coloureds and even Indians!

Being muslim/indian makes for even a bigger topic as the Palestine/ Israel and India/Pakistan/Kashmir issue always comes up.

Answer 12

Yes I do. It's usually with my father, we don't always agree and we argue about it but we are both so stubborn that non of us get through to another so we just agree to disagree. However, recently I have agreed with him on one subject.

I'm the only woman in the house so I will stick up for my fellow females and I have noticed men don't like it. I am very similar to my father and am a very proud person and not often will I admit I was wrong to any man! And my father is exactly the same. Although, I'm not often wrong anyway!