text: is your politics very different than the rest of your family's ?   sorry, i'm having too much fun answering your questions.  my dad's a moderate - he votes democrat, but he's more conservative than most of the party.  my mom is more at the left end, occasionally veering off into a sort of endearing paranoid-conspiracy-theory-leftist land.  i'm somewhere in the middle - i like to think of myself as a pragmatist, but i've been described by friends as an "aggressively moderate liberal".  (by the way, points for you for using politics as a singular word.  grammar - my other geeky little obsession.)