re: Kid who is 180 degrees from you politically

Why? Are you a failure as a person? No? Then you should want your kid to act just as you have.

I am just now starting to notice a trend with Dem supporters that came from the same place I did. Same upbringing, surroundings, etc.

All the ones that fricked up their lives early on, are Dems. Why? Because everyone deserves a second chance and who are we to judge? The ones paying for it, that's who.

Serve as a role model for your kids. Don't rely on someone else raising your own kids. I never had to depend on some coach or anyone else for that matter to raise my sons. Spend time and be involved in their lives and you will have a great influence on them.

Liberal=failure as a person.

Its hard. My father raised two boys...one is a staunch conservative and the other graduated with a poetry degree

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In summation, I would hate my kid and send them off to military school to break their arse.

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Personally, I'd try to figure out what makes him lean left in his views.

I have friends that I know are good people, but they are staunch Democrats.

But they are also not my kids and I'm not responsible for them.

My father was an old school democrat. He basically just hated all rich people and “the man” because he was never rich and never “the man” although he would never admit that was why. He was too obsessed with virtue signaling and resentment of the success of others to realize that the Democrat Party is really no longer for the hard-working, lower to middle class American at all.

My sister and I, and our husbands, and all the grandchildren, are all conservative and Trump fans.

The last 10 years up until he died a few months ago were very difficult and strained because of his political views. He watched CNN 24/7. We basically couldn’t talk about anything; not because any of us would argue with him but because he always had to blame everything on republicans.

If you mentioned that it rained a lot that day, it was the republicans’ fault because we were all science deniers [forgetting, of course, that amongst his trump-loving progeny were professional degrees, national merit scholars, valedictorians, med school students, etc...]. If you said there was a lot of traffic, it was because the republicans were taking all the money for themselves. There was no innocuous subject we could even talk about because he would somehow turn it into a political issue and mutter comments.

It was very sad.

My child’s voter card came in and she registered Dem. I told her to start paying for her own shite.

Both of my kids are conservatives with a strong work ethic. I'm a conservative, but I never tried to influence them politically. It didn't surprise me though considering no one in my family is a liberal except for my little brothers' daughter (notice I don't call her my niece). She's gay (I have no issue with that), but she's taking hormones and is about to have "the operation". She wants to be called "Jake". I just can't wrap my mind around that kind of illness.

But to answer the OP, I would love my children no matter what, but if they were liberal I'd steer clear of any political talk with them...or else I'd have to have them Clinton'd.

If my kid doesn’t challenge me I will question paternity!