There are 330 million people in the United States, and at least 200 million of them meet the constitutional age and citizenship requirements to be elected president of the United States.  Among those 200 million are countless brilliant, talented, and visionary people who could lead this country with great distinction.  And our constitutional system is such that, theoretically, we’re a democracy and we can elect any one of these exceptional people to be our next president.  But we’re not going to.

Our constitutional process for selecting and electing a president has broken down and become nonfunctional — to such an extent that we can only choose between Donald Trump and Joseph Biden to be our next president.

Both are senile (at a minimum) and suffering from serious mental incapacity.  And both have been accused of sexual assault.  Those are our choices.

Elections, so goes the cliché, are about the future, not the past.  But neither Donald Trump nor Joe Biden has any vision, plans, or proposals regarding the future of this country.  Donald Trump’s campaign is merely “Four more years of me.”  Joe Biden’s is “I’m not Donald Trump.”  Neither has offered the American people an agenda for the next four years.

Maybe another political cliché applies here:  The American people get the leaders they deserve.

For this country to recover and move forward, to become a better nation, to create a more perfect union, we need to change the way we select our presidents.