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“Do all of your relatives share conservative values, or has that eroded over time?”

My paternal grandfather despised the Soviets for what they had done to his family. My father felt the same way. I experienced less of the personal pain, but because I observed it, I studied the reasons why - and I’ve despised Leftists of all stripes for several decades. My mother is pretty conservative, but her parents weren’t (though they despised all of the governments in Europe - none of which were very decent to anyone, let alone Jews.

As for the rest of the family...well, my mother’s brothers (who are closer in age to me than their sister) started out as pretty liberal 1960s and early ‘70s college students. Then they started working...and now they are very conservative (especially for NY Jews). The rest of my mother’s family is lost beyond hope. 2 of my cousins were all over Facebook the day after the election in 2016, ready to kill themselves, moaning like someone had just ripped out their livers. Others are more quiet about it, but I know that they feel the same way. None of those people know much about the family’s history, nor do they care. On my father’s side, he only had one sister and none of her kids gives a damn about politics at all (and for sure they know very little, and care very little, about the family history). There is little to none of the wisdom in my generation that existed in the prior 2 that I knew.

Note that my kids are among the few and proud conservatives in their school. My daughter even wore a MAGA hat and a Trump t-shirt on the day after the election, BECAUSE it would piss people off. She did get high-5s from the entire football team, though. :>)