Did (do) your parents expect you to align with them politically?

I don’t know. I don’t even know where I am politically. It changes as needed and often.

They didn’t expect it but it pretty much happened naturally. My parents were quite liberal as am I.

Not at all, but I did. They were both quite liberal and left leaning.

Nope.

In 1972, I could not vote yet, but we had strong disagreements over the election at family dinners. But my dad was more interested in how we thought rather than dictating our choices.

My dad voted for Nixon that year. He later said it was the one vote of his life he regretted.

My parents never spoke about their political leanings when I lived at home, it was a private affair. In recent years I found that my father has the same political leaning as me, and my mother, the opposite. I do not know if my father back then voted as he does now, I must ask him. But I’m quite sure my mother voted the same way back then as she does now.

They expected it, both of my sisters did, but I was the polar opposite. My father accepted it with pretty good grace, and we could discuss stuff intelligently. My mother was (still is) horribly embarrassed, and accused me of discussing things, voting a certain way, campaigning, etc, “deliberately to humiliate me” (her). I had that phrase thrown in my face for decades.
Being estranged from her during this administration has saved me a great deal of grief.

I don’t think my parents ever gave it a thought. My folks were solid Roosevelt era Democrats, and surmised (correctly) that nothing came down the pike following FDR to dissuade them from that persuasion. My mother never forgave “the idiots of America” for rejecting Adlai Stevenson, and. my sister swears that it was the election of Reagan rather than our mother’s pack a day habit that brought on the first heart attack. Sis told the rest of us that mom would never survive in the event the gipper was re-elected, and she was right.

My mother almost never talks about politics directly. She asked me my opinion about something she was genuinely unsure about last year, and I think it was the first time we had discussed anything political since she explained why she was voting for Perot instead of Clinton in 1992.

My father definitely expects me (and you, and everyone else in the world) to align with him politically, and gets angry when I don’t (or when he thinks I don’t and cuts me off before I can explain my position). He also loves to talk about politics and doesn’t care if you want to or not.

My father has never been terribly outspoken politically, aside from being very pro-union. He leans Democrat, but doesn’t speak about politics much. I’m not sure my mother ever had any political views. My grandfather (dad’s dad), on the other hand was a Roosevelt/New Deal Democrat and remained staunchly Democrat for the rest of his life.

My folks never spoke of politics. I don’t think they cared.

I don’t think that my parents ever expected me to align with them politically, although it happens that I do on many issues but it’s not like they cornered me with political questions and tested me to see if I was on the same page as them.

Both of my parents were registered Republicans until they became independent during the Bush years. They often had political discussions among themselves, but when friends and family came over, the topics rarely came up. My parents seem to be more interested in political history than in current politics, but every now and then we do discuss it and it’s rare that my position is ever too different from theirs. Those stereotypes of political discussions getting heated at dinner tables and leading to bickering, feuding relatives never applied to my family. Not necessarily because we all agreed, but probably more due to lack of interest.

My Mom not so much,my Dad sure did.

My parents didn’t even completely align with each other. They still don’t.

I never felt any pressure to align with my parents politically while growing up, or as a young adult, but I will say that since my dad became a democrat (about 12 years ago) he does try to impress upon my mom and others to not vote for any republicans at all. This is a man who formerly voted for a lot of republicans, but never exclusively. My mom has always been a democrat, but she does vote for republicans sometimes, especially on the local level. I’d be surprised if she ever voted for a republican for president. I’m not sure though. She can be very conservative on some issues.

My dad gets annoyed when I defend people on the “other” side. He never was like that before. I’m basically aligned with my dad in terms of who I vote for currently (although I do not have any rule that the candidate must be democrats) but I say one thing that shows some understanding of Trump supporters, or some understanding of a republican and their point of view, and he flips out. I don’t even mean agreeing with the Trump voter, I mean just trying to explain their point of view. I find most democrats are like my dad right now.

In my own family political discussions are more ramped up than ever before. I guess it’s a microcosm of how I feel the country is now. I blame a lot of it on my dad being retired (having more time) and the 24 hour political news.

Having said all of that, no one would be disowning anyone in my family if votes don’t agree. Politics are discussed at times, but no one is holding it as a barometer for whether you can be part of the family are not. I just don’t understand people like that.

Our parents were born in the ‘20s. Both turned out to be Conservatives. Neither talked much to or around us about politics, which in hindsight, is disappointing.

Out of their four children, the eldest was a staunch Democrat, the second Republican (although he did not vote for Trump), the third is a solid Republican supporter, and my views are very Liberal. At family gatherings, political leanings are a taboo subject.

I don’t have children; the siblings do. Out of the eight, most are democratic or liberal. There are three that I don’t which way they sway.

They don’t care at all. We have been occasionally abstain from voting (with convincing excuses) and when we do bother to vote we’ll just pick the one we like the most. Our family don’t really care about politics and have long given up on the choices of leaders presented by the government, it will never make much difference in the end regarding the prosperity and stability on most part of the country.

My family has many different beliefs. From buttoned up christians to an environmental activist, so I feel like I have a well-rounded knowledge base from all pov’s to glean info from.

So the answer is no, I was never expected to believe any certain way, although the Republican theist pov was pushed harder by a few members.