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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect pictures of those properties might hurt Bernie more than win him supporters. Especially his main VT property with those two crappy cars in his garage. I don't think most people will see that as a virtue but simply weird and it'll tell people how different Bernie is rather than your aspirational American. It's the properties and lifestyle of a weird left wing college professor who matured past 1969. [/quote]

I'm not a Bernie supporter but the desperation of this kind of attack is just stupid and makes me even more disgusted with the republicans.  Doesn't really affect my view of Bernie at all.

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Is it an attack or just an observation? The United States is a very aspirational society. One reason why Trump is forgiven for his tackiness and extravagance is a lot of people understand and expect that level of flaunting from the rich, it's part of the American materialism. He's forgiven for it in a way Bloomberg may not be.

When someone is so clearly not materialistic to the point that he seems to go out of his way to disdain materialism and signs of materialism, that actually puts them outside the mainstream of America. People will wonder why this guy doesn't live "nicer" given his other accomplishments as a long term senator. I grew up around college professors as my dad was a professor so I see where Bernie comes from, that lack of interest in material things or having a nicer house or nicer cars or even nicer clothing. But it's unusual given the larger context of society, just as professors are often unusual and seen as loopy, marching to a different drummer. He's weird. And that's fine.

It's funny to see people so defensive of Bernie that they can't take any criticism of him. Bernie is who he is. A left wing socialist whose views were sharply formed by left wing progressive politics of the late 1960s. They are weird people because they don't think or see things in the same way most Americans do. [/quote]

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