Well, almost no one would vote for a 18 or 21 year old in office anyway, for obvious reasons. Theodore Roosevelt became the youngest president of the United States with 42 years, following William McKinley, Kennedy assumed office with 43.
The important candidates have all been weirdly old this year, Hillary's 68, Sanders was 75 and Trump's 70, you'd think the parties would be more concerned about that but I guess they aren't.
Kinda has an od feel to the Sovietunion, if you know what I mean. At some point, there have been only 70 and 80 year old farts runing the state making it a game, of who would end up first in a hospital with a stroke or heart attack. Those kind of people are usually for a no-change policy. Sometimes it takes new and young people who are willing to take some risks and with new ideas for a change. Otherwise you end up in stagnation. Which is what describes our current political system quite nicely. And I think, honestly this is what really bothers people the most, not the fact that politicans like Hillary (or Trump for that matter) are corrupt as shit, runing for Wall-Street and following the big money. Politic was always like that.
But there is simply the feeling that there's no progress. The same ol same. Over and over again. So much, that you ask your self, why even bother with voting? Doesn't matter if I vote for the one or the other, they are both bad. If you have the choice to fall in dung or pig shit, is that really much of a choice? So people become less and less interested in democracy and the core of it, where discussions become tiresome and people are easily frustrated. The fact that most people also work a lot doesn't help much either. I mean an idividual who's 9 or 10 hours a day working 5 or even 6 times a week, has barely the mental strength to bear his family. And you expect from such a person to also deal with highly complex political topics, like immigration, foreign policy, domestic policy and the like? Great joke.
And so, you end up with someone like Trump who's not different from all the other politicans, but who simply
feels different. Simply because he is not political correct. This is what I often get from Trump supporters. I am not saying that he is necessarily worse then Hillary. But he is definetly a lot more emotional, as Hillary feels more like one of those perfect and sleezy politicans, the kind that we've seen so often already. Trump simply feels strangely human compared to that. Honestly, if I wouldn't know that Trump is a narcissistic crock who's exploiting racism and demagoguery to get votes, I would rather vote for him then Hillary.
