It's not so much that the elections are rigged as it is the fact that Americans finally read 'the small print' on their party membership card.
Americans have been living under the false assumption that THEY have an equal partnership in owning and running their respective parties, as if they equal 'shareholders' in the 'company', thus they have an equal say in the decision-making and running of the party / 'company'.
WRONG! The bubble has burst, the illusion has been shattered.
Democrats have learned this year that their party's primary system has a 'safeguard' to prevent the people from rising up, rejecting their preferred candidate, and selecting someone THEY want. It's called the 'Super Delegate'. Every vote counts, nut every vote is NOT at all equal. Super delegates are hand-picked Washington Establishment / DNC Establishment Loyalists whose votes count many more times that of the Average American citizen party voter.
The positions are like USSC Justice positions - they literally can NOT be taken away. There is one DNC Super Delegate who has already be arrested, convicted, and who is waiting for his jail sentence which could be up to 130 years in jail. This guy can NOT lose his Super delegate vote, as reported by the news, and he will get to cast that vote even if he is in jail when it is time to do so. Hell, in US elections Felons are NOT legally allowed to vote...but THIS GUY is going to be casting a vote for Hillary that basically negates an ass-load of votes cast by DNC party members.
They constructed this fail-safe process quietly and have run it extremely quietly, without drawing attention to it.
Republicans, on the other hand, have caused a royal, bloody stink this year. In the past the GOP Rulers have herded the sheep through the gates, leading them to the point where they are told who their nominee is then told to hold their nose and vote for that candidate. THIS year, however, due to no one's fault but their own, the 'sheep' have rebelled, and herding them has been more like trying to herd cats, not sheep. The sheep have rebelled, forcing the GOP to finally publicly expose the fact that their party is a privately run 'boys' club - they are only along for the ride, they have no say in the decision-making or nominee appointing. It's all a shill, an illusion, one that finally has been exposed.
The 2-party system is a carefully crafted, carefully controlled combination of monopoly and fraud/scam designed to control people.
Reince Priebus, the GOP Chairman flat out told GOP members several weeks ago that if they did not like how the GOP was being run they could 'sit down and shut up'. You're along for the ride...nothing more. When we need you to vote we will tell you to show up, hold your nose, cast your vote, then go back to the corner, sit down, shut up, and let THEM get back to doing whatever they want.
The elections aren't rigged. The process created by the 2 parties have been carefully crafted to keep Americans stupid to the truth. Now they face the choice Neo faced - which pill to take. One leads back to the illusion where you have some measure of control and life is still nice and rosy or the one that exposes you're being controlled and you have been kept in a pod, 'fat', dumb, and happy.