My 22 year old son on Bernie versus HRC

[MADem]

122. And you seriously expect everyone to ignore elephants in the room because you deem them

"inappropriate?" Life and the real world do not work that way.

Appearance does impact voters. Age sure as hell does too--that's why Raygun addressed it early with the "youth and inexperience" joke. His people may have been assholes, but they weren't stupid--they knew that was an elephant in the room and it needed to be gunned down early on.

It's not all about "policies." People are not robots. People are drawn to "likable" sorts, people who are fun, friendly, interesting, entertaining--people who can draw you into their world and make you feel like you're the most important person in the room. Bill Clinton had that special talent--it has served him well down the years. Appearance, too, is why Nixon did better on the radio than he did on TV when debating Kennedy. It had EVERYTHING to do with who thought he won or lost that debate. And who won the "I wanna have a beer with that guy" contest, even though the Dimson the damned son was an alcoholic--that had everything to do with personality, it had nothing to do with who was better on "policies."

I got some news for you, too--you're LECTURING. You are telling people how they are "supposed" to feel--and if they don't feel the way you demand, you've got an excoriating opinion of them, so there~!

Let me lecture right back at you--that shit doesn't work. People may shut up, and not tell you what they think to your face, but they'll go along and think what they want and vote how they want, and they will even consider those things that you don't think they should be "allowed" to consider. Further, people don't give a shit if you think they lack maturity in their thinking--see, they don't CARE about you. They just care about themselves, and their choices, and they want THEIR candidate to prevail. If you don't get your way after telling them how dumb and immature they are, that would make them happy.

That's just human nature.