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Who would Alex P. Keaton vote for today?


I usually don't like to make things on these message boards political, and I'm certainly not endorsing any of the current presidential candidates here – nor am I asking you to. What I'm interested in hearing from you all is who you think Alex would vote for today, given his strong political opinions, and why.

Please discuss!

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Trump. He and Alex are conservative and bossy.

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Agreed on Trump, Alex is the big business big money corporate yuppie stereotype for sure (which not all Republicans are, fortunately).

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Alex would go for Hillary. Alex was never a racist--which trump is, taking endorsements from the KKK.Alex would not want to have anything to do with the KKK.

He always dated strong women---not at all like Carly Fiorina. So yes, he'd be working on the local Republicans for Hillary chapter. Wait, he'd be heading it, living in NY.

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No chance in the world would Alex ever vote for/support Hillary, just as he would never have voted for Obama.

The current Democratic party pushes for the ever expanding role of "Big Government" with myriad social programs at the expense of both taxpayers and private business growth and expansion.

Being a hyper-capitalist by nature, Alex would find those programs and principles to be repulsive.

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Well, one could only hope, that after the Republicans joined the Democrats in the Big Government sweepstakes by passing Medicare Part D and adding a cool $11,000,000,000,000 to the accrual basis national debt circa 2003, he'd have woken up from the neo-conservative line and he'd be voting for Gary Johnson at this point...

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Take your Trump Derangement Syndrome off of a movie discussion site and seek therapy.

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trump, who never excepted that nonsense endorsement made by that fellow who just wants to start troll arguments.his parents would have been for bernie.

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I think Alex would come to realize that he is not a republican , but a libertarian instead . Libertarians are fiscally conservative , yet socially open-minded .

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My thoughts exactly, natalieanne71. As sarcastic as Alex would be about Mallory not going to a "real college" and other insults he would throw out to others here and there, he was quite the tenderheart and stood up for the little guys. Libertarian, indeed.

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Plus if he was truly a hardcore republican , he never would have been seriously involved with girls like Ellen and Lauren .

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And that's why he would have been in the DLC wing of the Democratic party (the fiscal moderate Democrats) which Bill and Hillary are.

He was seriously involved with those types of women. He liked those types of women. He craved them.

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Is everyone conveniently forgetting about the hardcore Republican pro-capitalist female Bank Manager that Alex feel head over heels with?? Melinda Culea as Rebecca Ryan.

When it came to women as a college-aged guy, Alex didn't really consider their political affiliation at that point (most, if not all guys don't!!). He was more into romance and falling in love, a girl's political affilitation was a very low priority to him.

But seriously, the Alex depicted in Family Ties vote for Hillary??? She recently came out in full support of Obama's Dodd Frank regulation, which in effect greatly handcuffs what banks and financial institutions can do. And Dodd Frank costs them billions of dollars in compliance and administrative fees on their books. She also stated she is going to further tighten the Volcker rule on trading (Alex's specialty!!). She is fully endorsing and commenting that she will be expanding the regulations and rules to hamper how Wall Street operates and how much income their employees (READ ALEX) can generate.

To suggest Alex would vote for Hillary is as outlandish as suggesting that Obama will flip the switch for Trump in November. Ain't gonna happen.

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Again--look at Nixon--who Alex had prominently displayed in his bedroom

*supported EPA
*Established affirmative action
*Signed Rehabilitation Act
Supported Public Funding of Birth Control
*President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped
*Architectural Barriers Act--Federal Buildings had to be accessible to people with disabilities


Alex would have a big issue with trying to shut down planned parenthood or attack women. He would realize by today that the GOP no longer represented him.

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I'm watching the ERA episode online. Alex ultimately confessed he did it only to get a girlfriend.

BUT he also told that same group that he did actually learn a little bit more about why they felt there was a need for the amendment. It did open his eyes and mind a little bit.

This would be difficult in today's GOP--which (read the Texas Platform) rejects critical thinking. Alex would not tell these women he found any thing he liked about these women or their cause.

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I appreciate your viewpoint but you are trying to evolve and alter the Michael Keaton which the producers of the show gave us.

The show ended with Michael Keaton racing to Wall Street to get his gritty capitalistic teeth and claws into a high powered Wall Street Financial Brokerage house. This is the reality we have to base the answer upon, and not hypothesizing or guessing that he might develop to embrace all the liberal tendencies you would like him to have.

So its really a silly question.

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Wanting to make lots of money does not necessarily mean you don't want women to have legal rights. Or that you want church and state to be fused together in a theocracy.

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Wanting to make lots of money does not necessarily mean you don't want women to have legal rights. Or that you want church and state to be fused together in a theocracy. Hillary would have been his Senator in NY too.

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LoL,,,I noticed I accidentally called him Michael Keaton by mistake. So now it looks like I am taking liberties to change "facts" about him also. And sure Clinton would have been NY Senator, but Alex would have been one of the millions of NY Republicans who voted against her.

As I read your notes and one or two of the other ones who have this same liberal dream idea about Alex, I notice that the comments say that in the future that Alex "will realize" or "come to realize" he is a left wing democrat at heart and come to swoon over women's rights, black lives matter, transgendered bathroom privileges, sanctuary cities, etc. etc. Again, you are taking poetic license with Alex and performing a lobodomy on him. The show painted him as a capitalist right wing Republican to the very last scene of the show.


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Capitalist is not the same as a right wing Republican. And not the same as today's GOP either.

Alex would defend the free market--the same way her husband signed NAFTA and welfare reform imposing restrictions on welfare. He would support a ban on assault weapons (they never had Alex running around with guns.


I did not say that Hillary was a left wing Democrat. Hillary and Bill were centrist---what had been called the Democratic Leadership Committee. They were fiscal moderates.


I did say that since Alex only talks in terms of economic policies and today's GOP tries to organize on social issues, it would be difficult to write him convincingly as a 'republican'. They would have to write him as a moderate Democrat.


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LoL, they "wrote" Alex as a capitalistic success driven Republican. There is no opportunity to theorize anything would change.

But since it looks like we are allowed to rewrite the personalities and mental characteristics of the Keaton family, let me re-do Mallory then.

Mallory would have dumped Nick, and "came to realize" he was a loser and an utter failure. She then would have married a very successful good looking guy who owned his own business. They moved into an estate home and raised two fine children, along with the help of a live-in governess.

Mallory now fully intends to support the Republican ticket in this election and do whatever she can to grow the family business. Her family business has been struggling with the weak economy, the devastating impact of the new medical laws, and the promise of more taxes to come to her income class.

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I could see Mallory becoming the ultra conservative business woman owning a multi million dollar clothing business.

This is not a rewrite. We are showing how their personalities did evolve with the times. Mallory took her talents and aspirations and put them to use.


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Thank you, at least you are being fair about how you apply your theory across the board..

I prefer to still believe the characters remained true to form. Take care.

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It would not be interesting if they remained exactly the same

Even the parents had evolved from their pasts as hippy flower children. The mom is an architect---the median salary in 2014 is $74,520 USD/ She did take time off for her pregnancies. But it is clear that she earns more than her husband who works at a non-profit PBS station.

She does like making money.

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As much as anyone wants Alex to evolve, switch sides, have some epiphany it is doubtful. Alex set out for NY to become a Trump like businessman. It would seem more likely that Alex would become part of the Trump organization than he would be to vote for Hillary.

Alex was a Reagan Conservative/Republican, that does not mean he will agree with modern day GOP's but it would hardly swing him around to Clinton. Saying he would vote for Hillary against Trump takes a lot of liberties in character change. The very basis of his ideology is Trump, it would be easier to assume Alex would run for political office than to think he would do a complete reversal of position and lean towards Hillary. In the world of Family Ties, Alex is likely some elected official or in position to run for office if he chose. I doubt even his parents would vote Hillary, Sanders sure but not Hillary.



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Probably Ted Cruz. Yes he is a staunch fiscal and Constitutional conservative. But the guy does a lot personally for charity though its very low key. I believe Alex demonstrated many of these ideals as he was also very driven but equally compassionate. Both would be labelled extreme right by the SJW of today but the more evolved would recognize they are a cut above most and we'd be lucky to have either of them leading us.


"Obamacare: It only works if you don't!"

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Given the choice between Hillary, an effective conservative endorsed by Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Hollywood conservatives as well as libs, and much of the old-school establishment Republican Party, like the Bush family and Romney, and a protectionist, isolationist, populist, and supposedly 'anti-elitist' candidate like Trump, I suspect Alex P. Keaton would wear a peg on his nose and cast his vote for Hillary. Apart from Trump's tax cuts for the 1% and corporations, and his admiration for the 80s/90s era Trump, I suspect he'd abhor most of Trump's agenda, both from a socially liberal, or at least libertarian, perspective, and a fiscally conservative one.

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Alex was never backing white supremacists. He was never bashing people of different skin colors. He'd probably do the same thing my brother did and conceede they voted for Hillary after all.

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never backing white supremacists. He was never bashing people of different skin colors."
neither has trump........ wake the fuck up!

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I'm unsure who Alex would have voted for. But as thorough as Alex liked to be, he probably would have done his own research.

I am reasonably sure he would never have voted for Hillary. Alex would have been reading the Wikileaks.

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Alex never supported the Russians. Would hate Trump who yes lives on fast food only diet Remember Alex does like 'smart women' too.

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