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Yes, very much so. My college major was Government, so I guess I’m just predisposed to it.
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Slightly more left wing.
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I enjoyed living with my parents, but couldn’t say I enjoyed being a subordinate (can’t think of anyone who would). Is there a better way to reword?
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Yes, fairly without question. They were very reasonable, and everything had rational reasons, so I had no problem.
- yes
- Independent, but overall more right than left
- No
- No
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Yes. Formerly indifferent to politics, but pissed as hell at the RepubliKKKans for impeaching Clinton, and even more pissed at the dirty election in Florida.
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Left. Formerly independent but now getting lefter and Greener all the time.
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I was fine with the 'rents as a child, but rebelled as a teenager. (Now as an adult I’m fine with them again)
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As a child, wasn’t much aware of the restrictions. In adolescence, did what I could get away with.
Q1: Not really. I’m passionate about some issues though.
Q2: Definitely a lefty.
Q3: Enjoy living with my parents (I’m 18) but never really felt like a subordinate. My parents are pretty relaxed. But on the occasions that it was their way or the highway, I didn’t enjoy it - nobody really likes being told what to do, do they?
Q4: Yep.
- No
- Very close to right in between, but I think I’m a tad more lefty
- No
- Yes. Until I got to college. All that obeying stuff went straight to hell, but they never knew.
Q1: Is politics something that gets you fired up?
No - it puts me to sleep.
Q2: Do you consider yourself more right wing or more left wing?
Right wing.
Q3: Did you enjoy living with your parents while younger and being a subordinate part of the family structure?
I’m 25 and still live at home so I guess the answer is that it doesn’t bother me.
Q4: Did you respect your parents authoritaran duties towards you? (in other words, if your parents said don’t do something, you didn’t do it)
Yes.
- No
- Left
- No
- Yes
- Not in the slighttest
- Left
- Yes
- Yes
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*Originally posted by trylo *
Q1: Is politics something that gets you fired up?
“Politics” is huge. It depends on the issue and the potential for real, needed change. Ballyhoo and posturing digust me. I’ve come to believe that all politics ARE local; it’s cumulative. Sorting out the idiocy from what’s real is the challenge. So…yes.
Q2: Do you consider yourself more right wing or more left wing?
Swing voter, swing “pole”. Neither extreme holds the high ground. Social leftist, no doubt. (The principled “right” used to abhor governmental Big Brotherism.) Fiscal moderate. Money’s just a tool; even taxes. It’s used wisely and providently or it’s a resource wasted. Assign a “pole” to THAT one! I call it common sense.
Q3: Did you enjoy living with your parents while younger and being a subordinate part of the family structure?
No, I hated it. And worked my way out ASAP. But that has much more to do with quirky, messy individual pathology than anything else. Unhappy families are always unhappy in their own endlessly variable ways.
Q4: Did you respect your parents authoritaran duties towards you? (in other words, if your parents said don’t do something, you didn’t do it)
I respected their authority AS authority, i.e. power. The Golden Rule: those with the gold make the rules. I never questioned their right and obligation to set down rules. It was more a question of respect than agreement. Different lives, different pressures, different answers. While I lived under their roof and at their expense there was no overt disagreement. Respect. Later, on my own, there was tenative discussion but no demand for conversion to my views. (Later we discovered amazing points of agreement even though we started at opposite poles.)
Veb
Q1: No. Not at all.
Q2: Left of left.
Q3: NO.
Q4: Generally, yeah. But my decisions usually originated from personal convictions. That is, I didn’t smoke because I didn’t want to, not because my parents said “Don’t smoke.” I do what I feel like, and often that would co-incided with what my parents wanted me to do.
- Not as much as it used to. Life’s too short to be angry and frustrated all the time.
- Left-leaning, but I hate knee-jerk liberals. I try to be open-minded about issues on a case-by-case basis.
- Sort of, but my teen years were rocky.
- Only if I agreed with them. If we couldn’t compromise, I just got sneakier. (I’m talking primarily about substance abuse)
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No, generally, though idiocy can get me kind of worked up in any context.
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More right wing, though in a Libertarian sort of way.
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As an only child, and probably “spoiled” by the standards of many, I generally enjoyed living at home. I didn’t at all consider myself a subordinate part of the family structure though. My parents, and especially my father, always made me feel as though my opinions on family decisions had weight. Of course, it was up to me to argue my case effectively…
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As alluded above, my parents were decidedly non-authoritarian, though I did grow up with a sense that I had to be able to justify my actions logically. To the extent that I could not, or didn’t feel like even raising the matter, I tended not to act contrary to their wishes. There were issues though, such as staying out late at night with my friends in my late teens, where they raised vague objections (simple concern that “something might happen”, even though they trusted me). In that case, their inability to argue their case effectively meant that I stayed out pretty much as late as I wished.
Please do make your study findings available to us.
Yes
Right
No
Only if it made sense and was reasonable
If you really think it will help:
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Yes, but I’m more and more disillusioned with the whole process.
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Generally socially left but with some libertarian ideas, and economically “liberal” in the classical sense, i.e. I’m for a social state with freedoms but not for socialism. Simplify it as you desire.
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No.
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No.
politics. does it get me fired up?
depends. irish politics? yes.
capitalism vs socialism? yes.
globalisation vs its alternatives? yes.
this minor MOR guy vs that minor MOR guy? no.
- left vs right.
left. definitely.
i believe in the principal of “from each according to his means, to each according to his needs.”
otherwise known as socialism, christian charity or poor buisness sense.
add social, political and religious freedom to the above and you have utopia.
- enjoyment of subordinate role in a family group.
not an issue.
you’ve never met my family, buddy.
we were never given direct orders, always won over by argument…and if i could list 10 good reasons why i should get my way, i got it.
- obey parents?
see above. if i disagreed i found a way to argue my case.
otherwise i had no qualms against acting first and arguing later.
it’s not like i was ever punished for disobedience.
no grounding, chores, loss of priveleges. nothing. just a general sense of hurt disapproval.
my famly sounds lke anarchy, but it worked very well, and we hardly ever fought or got into trouble.
- Not usually.
- Both. Fiscally conservative, socially liberal (except when it comes to money)
- I enjoyed living with my parents, didn’t like being a subordinate part of the family structure.
- Mostly, except when my mom was being stubborn and saying “no” because she could. I was a goody two-shoes as a kid.
- gets me warm, but not boiling generally.
- right
- yes (had quite a bit of independance, well provided for)
- sometime! (when it suited me)
Q1: No.
Q2: Slightly right of center.
Q3: Did you enjoy living with your parents while younger and being a subordinate part of the family structure?
Eh? Yes (mostly). Did I enjoy the simplicity of life having 2 great people looking out for me, yes. Was I a whiny prick when being subordinate meant things didn’t go my way? You bet. As a side note I only lived with my parents till I was 13 so my teenage angst didn’t really enter the relationship.
Q4: No. Did I masterfully conceal those activities my parents had forbidden that I chose to do? Yep. TVeblen’s answer fits me pretty well.
No.
Left.
No.
Not after a certain age.
- Yes politics drive me crazy as I have very little faith in the political system .
- I’m way left
- Yes, I get terribly homesick and visit as much as I possibly can even now.
- My parents are happy in every aspect of their life and it was obvious from a young age. I did whatever they asked hoping I could be like them…so yes.