any young Dems from Repuke families here?

[pstokely]

how were you able to see the light

[tedoll78]

1. Here.

Of course, I'm a homosexual. So the story kinda tells itself.

[Alleycat]

3. How do they feel about Bush?

I am from a dem family from way back. Most of my friends are either dem or independents. I really don't know personally anyone who voted for * . I do know a few aquaintances in passing who supported him but not well enough to get into dicussion about politics with. Are they celebrating, joyous happy?? I am not really seeing alot of hee haw he won but that may be because I don't know too many repugs.

[tedoll78]

4. First off,

none of them are thrilled with him. Any votes that Bush got from them were more against Kerry.

They're a Catholic family in Louisiana (I'm in Austin/TX). Mom is a conundrum; I can't read her, and she doesn't disclose her vote to ANYONE. I can report though that she loved both Reagan AND Clinton. So I see her as a swing vote, and I try to fish for opinions out of her.

My sister has potential to be a Democrat, but her friends around her are mostly Repugs, and I wonder if they influence her. They're racist, backwards (rednecky), greedy (taxes), fascist (choice), etc. She expresses pro-gay opinions, and she appears to be pro-choice. She's your typical 23-year-old bowhead: buy buy buy! If she were to invest a bit of her time into critical thought about the world, she'd be solidly in our camp. Instead, she didn't vote this year at all.

Dad's an idiot. It pains me immensely to say so. He claims to care about the environment (he's a hunter), and about scientific progress.. and yet for some reason he's the one in the family who is most concerned with terror. Again.. idiotic. What a waste of a good mind. I could sway him if I had constant influence on him (via FACTS and LOGIC), but his brothers are political idiots as well. Think "Left Behind." Yup.

So that's my family scenario. Sad.

[Alleycat]

6. They don't sound all that different

from some in my family:) My Mom and Dad vote dem all the time because that's what they do. Think the repub are all about the rich and big business. When I asked this summer who they were voting for they both said Kerry without hesitation followed by we would never vote for a repubican! I guess party affiliation has a lot to do with who you are raised by. You have a lot of guts to stand on your own.

[sandnsea]

10. Your parents are right

People used to know without question Republicans were the party of the rich and big business. That's why they usually lost. There was no question about it. Over the years, too many people forgot that and decided to vote "for the man". Then candidates were able to fool people into thinking they were just "a regular guy" and that's how we got George Bush.

[sabbat hunter]

9. not always

there is the 'log cabin republicans'

although i wonder if they will defect enmasse with the anti gay marriage proposals passing, and bush pushing a constitutional amendment.


david

[recoveringrepublican]

2. by having to pay my own bills and learning that as

a hearing impaired person repukes consider me "worthless". My very liberal husband helped, having children helped, reading the New Testament as a new mother helped for me to realize that to be Christ-like being a liberal helps achieve that. Working low wage jobs while going to school helped (I will never say people are poor because they are lazy, bullshit). Having to pay outrageous energy bills help, when I realized that there was no other power company I could switch to (capitalism is suppose to be good for the consumer, right? NOT).

Geez, I'm just rambling with every post I write all over the "internets" today.

[HappinessPie]

5. My parents are Independent but both voted straight Dem this year! However

my father-in-law is a lifelong Rethug.

He doesn't support B*, though, because he (FIL) is a true fiscal conservative who recognizes that B* is not. I only hope he abstained or voted for the Libertarian.

[senseandsensibility]

7. My hubby (another DUer)

and I are both very liberal, and we are both from far right families. We are still the only liberals at family get togethers--heck, forget liberal--we're the only Democrats!! We long ago gave up talking politics to them. I mean, what do you say when someone tells you with a straight face to read Ann Coulter's book and you will understand? That's kind of when you realize there is no common ground. I began to emerge from the republican childhood thanks to the influence of my high school history teacher who taught classes with names like, "Minority Urban Affairs." Later, my beloved husband, who may be to the left of Kucinich, helped me complete the process. He is a beautiful, beautiful person. AND HE WORKED HIS BUTT OFF FOR KERRY!!!

[guruant]

8. I'm only 16 years old and I did like Bush...

And was for the war, but it was Howard Dean (thank you if in any chance you're reading this, heh) that woke me up, fortunately. Unfortunately, my parents still support Bush.

[asianjoanne]

11. noahmijo, my boyfriend

was born into a Republican family. His father is STILL a Republican (seriously, at this very moment, his father and himself are yelling at each other over politics in the room next to me). Noah saw the light all thanks to OUR president, John Kerry. hehehe.

* isn't OUR president. Noah and I didn't vote for *. So, OUR pres is Kerry. :D

[pantouflard]

12. Once your mind is open, you can't go back.

Taking an Anthropology class in college is what woke me up. (Thank you Dr. Snyder!) Then I took sociology. Started paying attention, seeing all the unfairness and the suffering in the world. Realized there was more than one way to think, be, live. Ended up getting my BA in Anthro, studying other cultures and the evolution of humans.

In a nutshell, I figured out that there is no "right" way. My family still sees the universe in black and white...