And you no doubt were laughed off as a curmudgeonly old crackpot “hater.”
I run into this all the time with my naive, scatterbrained daughter.
No, actually I thanked these 2 polite students (a real RARITY, trust me--most of them would tell me "F___ you, I gonna kill you wid a knife you diss my homeboy Bernie!" for an interesting conversation and the boy thanked me for the information. The girl was a little too far gone in her indoctrination to waver from what she'd been taught to believe. She was the Bernie fan. I don't think critical thinking was quite her forte.
My point is, ONLY the Democrap candidates were used for this assignment. No evidence of Republican candidates even being considered. That frightened me.