Presidential Showdown Highlights America's Critical-thought Problem

Sometimes I wonder about the IQ of the writers of some of these articles: US national politics has evolved into a cynical game that revolves around calculated strategies based on an ignorant population and a manipulation of the media. A candidates message must be packaged into a media presentation that has more in common with a cartoon than intelligent proposals aimed at seriously addressing the challenges of a country with a Multi-Trillion Dollar budget. The silly, disingenuous complaints about candidates "not providing enough detail" on, for example, a proposal for the nations tax reform that currently requires 70,000 pages of text to explain, would be funny if the subject matter wasn't so deadly serious.