About media's role, I obviously don't see it black and white, that their only role is to just mindlessly report what happens lol. There's different roles, even different parties or other interests who stand behind different media outlets, and even within a media outlet they usually organize it in a certain way where subjective opinion may be expressed in one place while "mindless reporting" is expressed in another.

It's a huge discussion and there's no room for it here, but in short; I am not happy about the role and behaviour of mainstream media in general.

He got less votes than Romney and McCain and she still lost hahahaha, this is what you get for rigging the premaries

Nail on head.

People are disillusioned with the system believing it's fixed. On this backdrop, the primaries are... fixed. This information hits the public domain. Is it any wonder the number of votes in this election dropped?!

That said, I am really gutted that this was not the breakthrough year for the independents. It could have easily been so different. Maybe this will be the wake up call and at the next election people might be motivated.

As you can see from the numbers of voters above, he could've been beaten. Next time, just choose a better candidate to go against him:

"She was the Democratic candidate because it was her turn and because a Clinton victory would have moved every Democrat in Washington up a notch. Whether or not she would win was always a secondary matter, something that was taken for granted. Had winning been the party’s number one concern, several more suitable candidates were ready to go. There was Joe Biden, with his powerful plainspoken style, and there was Bernie Sanders, an inspiring and largely scandal-free figure. Each of them would probably have beaten Trump, but neither of them would really have served the interests of the party insiders.

And so Democratic leaders made Hillary their candidate even though they knew about her closeness to the banks, her fondness for war, and her unique vulnerability on the trade issue – each of which Trump exploited to the fullest. They chose Hillary even though they knew about her private email server. They chose her even though some of those who studied the Clinton Foundation suspected it was a sketchy proposition.

To try to put over such a nominee while screaming that the Republican is a rightwing monster is to court disbelief. If Trump is a fascist, as liberals often said, Democrats should have put in their strongest player to stop him, not a party hack they’d chosen because it was her turn. Choosing her indicated either that Democrats didn’t mean what they said about Trump’s riskiness, that their opportunism took precedence over the country’s well-being, or maybe both."