Influencing Political Views

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Our environment has a huge impact on our political views. In my opinion, parents play the largest role in influencing kids' political views. Normally, kids don't read and watch the news, so it's easier to take our parents' views as our own. Many times, as kids get older after hearing their parents views for so long, they form the same political views. They have always heard a certain side of politics, so they hold that to be true and don't look at all aspects of the topic. Another key role in influencing views is school. We are in school at least eight hours a day, so we're bound to take something from it. It's typical for an east Texas school to have different political viewpoints than a school up north, so most of the kids would lean

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