[driftless2]

It took my Democrat born and raised pappy two years before he died at the age of 93 before he declared he was an independent. My mother until the day she die stayed a committed Democrat. And both were socially conservative Catholics who believed in hard work and earning your way through life.

Yet both never gave up their childhood belief that the Republican Party was the party of the rich and privileged. Nothing I said to them ever made a dent in their belief that the Democrat Party was the party of good people who cared. Not even when the Democrats became the party of abortion on demand, homosexual marriage, and Bill Clinton did they change their belief about the saintliness of Democrats. I used to kid them they both believed FDR was still the president.

[miss marmelstein]

Democrat politics is akin to homosexuality - a refusal to grow out of adolescence.

[Dr. Sivana]

Yet both never gave up their childhood belief that the Republican Party was the party of the rich and privileged.

Yup. My 97 year old grandmother was the same (passed away in 2008). If you provide arguments, she would talk about how tricky the Republicans are.