" And I still think your media and schools should have put a stop to this nonsense years ago..."

I think if you just went back to the 1970s our media would not have tolerated the utter insanity of this process and would have approached it in a very different way. Now they are complicit in it and support it. Our media outlets tend to be part of major conglomerates now and so not exactly independent. Time Warner, for example, owns CNN and just happens to be a major contributor to all things Clinton...which makes it not particularly surprising that CNN is basically the Clinton News Network and keeps telling us what a strong and amazing candidate Hillary Clinton is...when the fact is she is one of the most divisive politicians of the last 40 years and her track record is not impressive in the positions she has served in. On top of which her dishonesty and willingness to say anything to anybody no matter how obvious it is she is blowing smoke is just ridiculous.

I guess one positive thing to take out of this, and really I have to look for positives, is that despite the fact that our media keeps working to marginalize Bernie Sanders he is still getting a large percentage of the votes and collecting a good number of delegates. Probably not what he will need to win the nomination and you have to take into account the Democrats want to nominate him about as much as the Republicans want to nominate Donald Trump.

It's funny, the success of both Trump and Sanders basically shows we have a country that is well aware that the system is broken and people are voting for candidates that most represent a path to change. Granted, they represent completely different paths and likely completely different outcomes if they are elected but the goal of the voters is the same...send somebody to Washington that will not just go along with all of the failed policies they keep embracing. Policies that have led to a destruction of the middle class and an economy that punishes them while rewarding the wealthy. The money does not "trickle down" here it flows upward and from Reagan to Obama none of these guys along with our House and Senate have done anything but make it flow upwards at a more rapid and destructive rate.

Our schools vary from state to state because each state controls their own public education system. This link provides a "report card" for each state's public education system.

http://www.edweek.org/ew/qc/2016/2016-state-report-cards-map.html? intc=EW-QC16-LFTNAV

I think if you explore that map by clicking on different states you will find the states that tend not to spend on public education have some of the worst issues. It also will reveal that "Red States" tend to mainly be states that have poor public education systems and Rand Paul's Kentucky is among them.

It does feel like these Republican candidates want to "eliminate the Department of Education" because they prefer a poorly educated electorate to an educated one. I'm sure they would deny that but looking at the map I linked to...well...it is hard to debate. That little Northeastern portion of the country where I live and that has the best education report cards also happens to be the most progressive portion of the United States...and also where Bernie is from.

I know you get it, man, I'm just going over it...I guess for myself...because I wish everybody got it.