Same here. In “All in the Family”, I was sympathetic Archie due to the diatribes/lectures from Meathead. If Meathead was so outraged by Archie’s attitude, he should have gotten his butt out the door and got a job and lived independently with wife Gloria instead of sponging off FIL and expecting his wife to bring in the $$$.
Archie, Caroll O’Connor, was a liberal but I saw him defend Richard Nixon against one of the Harvard liberals, John Kenneth Galbraith, on Merv Griffin. Also, it was a howler when Larry David went on Skip Gates’ show to find out about his ancestors and his great-grandfather had been an officer in the Confederate Army! Larry David was disconsolate.
Archie (in real life) was a lib. On the show, I agreed with 95% of what he said