than it is their age. I saw the same thing happen with my mother - a turning away from the democratic party as she became more & more dissatisfied with her life.
When she started listening to Limbaugh in the early 90s it really accelerated! He is very good at getting people who are dissatisfied & vulnerable in their lives, to blame someone else for their problems. It's the fault of the gays, or the blacks or the Hispanics or the feminists - all who are liberal!
It's certainly not their own fault because they played by the rules all their life, so it must be someone else's fault. My mother made some disastrous decisions & she would never admit that a lot of her plight was due to those bad decisions. It was easier to blame someone else.
I sent her that "Joe Conservative" commentary & asked her, "What is it about these policies that you object to?" & she couldn't answer. It was then that I knew she still believed in democratic values, but somewhere along the line she got it all skewed & thought they were just for some people, not all people.
We had a very conflicted relationship toward the end.
FWIW, I've gotten more & more liberal as I get older. I see that in my husband, too. So don't write all us old people off! 
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