Living in a family with different political opinions.

[Insert name here]

So me and my older brother were spending time together watching YouTube videos when some how his distaste of liberals surfaced. I do not like political labels, but a majority of my opinions about politics fall into the liberal category. My entire family is very, well, to put it bluntly, prejudiced about liberal view points, throwing out the phrases like " Well if those liberals." or " liberals are stupid, they solve one problem, but make ten more." At times I feel as though actually talking about my opinions would get me in trouble, whether or not that would actually happen is beyond me. Have any of you ever gone through something like this? Was it your family or just someone you know at school or your job? What do you ink of spreading such stereotypes and generalizations?

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My parents have some pretty ridiculous (and hilarious) political ideas also (central idea of second conjured by my dad and elaborated on and agreed with by my mom, and the rest said by my mom, with my dad agreeing that Obama has a secret Muslim agenda):

"Obama is aiding (by apparently going out of his way not to do anything, which is absurd) ISIS for his secret Muslim agenda!"
"No woman should have a leading position in the military, because testosterone! Oh, you think that is ridiculous? Then maybe you should join the military for your movement!!!1"
"I know someone who used to be a liberal, and now they are a conservative. What was their reasoning? They said they were a child then, and now they are an adult! Oh, you say the reverse also happens? Well, I'm going to keep repeating it like it is relevant anyway! Yay!"
"You believe everything you hear! They are looking for people just like you... young... impressionable... it's just like what happened with Hitler (about Obama)!" Why? Because I was going against the idea that Obama is a secret Muslim (like one of those brainwashed idiots).

I don't really think they make political generalizations much, but I'm still in a similar situation as ya. As far getting in trouble for mentioning my opinions, well, whenever I disagree with my parents, they just say they don't want to start a debate or something.

I think I might be guilty of making similar statements about republicans, but I can't think of any level-headed republican politicians, so I'm not sure they're inaccurate. I think they're out there but unpopular, so I don't hear about them. And they're probably not really even much of republicans, because anyone against the legalization of gay marriage (etc.) is not level-headed. They'd probably just be "fiscally conservative".