I have this pet theory that one of the reasons we are seeing a collapse of the DNC and the RNC establishment is because the young whiz kids that they both employ that do everything based on numbers and formulas have destroyed the core of the parties themselves. Today's political messages are so contrived, focus group tested, and targeted to ever smaller groups that all the nutters feel that their respective party actually holds their same views even if don't in reality. Both parties have maximized the vote to the extent that they managed to get fringe groups to support them and now in the case of Bernie young people and affluent whites are ignoring the DNCs pre ordained candidate and Trump is making a mockery of the will of the RNC establishment. I hope after this debacle that both sides take a step back, fire all the number crunchers and sit down and come up with one single coherent platform and stick with it instead of trying to convince every nut job and his dog that they are perfectly normal in holding their views. The RNC need to kick out the Evangelicals and Tea Partiers and the DNC need to kick out the socialists and the freeloaders. Sadly, I ran a quick calculation using fancy math and find the approximate chances of this actually happening to be around 0%.
I can't say it politely so I'll just say it...we're a bunch of dumb people! We think we're so smart but fact is we're as dumb as a stump and about as useless. We're ignorant of facts, refuse reality, heavily biased, extreme, pathetically petty!, self-serving, greedy, selfish, righteous, and on top of this we have the gall to be rabid about our very personal positions...preferring to force on the entire population and nation our personal beliefs. It is 100% impossible to change this without giving the American public a lobotomy and reprogramming! How can an idiot American select our leaders when idiot Americans are clueless about the Constitution and the detailed operation of government and are ignorant about world issues? IMO everything is in the crapper because most Americans operate in the crapper! The RNC and DNC are just a mirror of today's society...
People are rationally ignorant of politics. "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." ~Freidrich Hayek