It's been that way for ltierally decades. I come from a Democratic family, but my old man still gets on the soapbox about things like head of the household, two sexes that we can tell....once was laid out on the couch watching voyager.....said Captain Janeway was a B-
I've always had a democratic family, we voted on decisions since I could remember. We did, of course, also debated and argued with passion over several topics before reaching a vote. But there was always a vote.
Until I played one of the Carmen games from 1995 with Lynn Thigpen, and I found a note left behind from one of her agents, I didn't realize that Carmen pays her people too Lol