It's a travesty that voters in some of our largest states, including Ohio, never got a say in the Democratic presidential contest.

Our current system of interminable, farcical "debates" and primaries that drag on for months serves regular people poorly. It should be burned down.

If the only possible alternative (it's not) to this system was a group of insiders picking the candidate in a smoke-filled room, I'd favor that over what we have now. At least it wouldn't be a charade that wastes incredible amounts of time and money.

One easy reform (and I know that this is crazy talk, but hear me out) would be to just have everyone across the country vote on the same day, and just, like, tally up the votes. And the person who won would be the nominee.

This is one (of many) reasons why so many people don't trust our system, and why so many of the people in "back-row" America that @Chris_arnade writes about have decided to drop out of the political process altogether.

We've created these needlessly complicated and arcane political processes that provide a thin veneer of sophistication, but are actually far less than meets the eye when it comes to achieving the substantive goal of selecting a candidate that a diverse electorate can embrace.