It’s hard to understand American politics, regardless of one’s views

So Biden announced his 2024 re-election bid. Is it because he’s wildly popular? It doesn’t look so.

It’s likely to be a re-run of the 2020 campaign, they say. Biden vs. Trump.

Sitting in the kitchen, eating my dinner, I tell my Mom, “I don’t get it. More than three hundred million people and so many smart and talented individuals, and we only get this.”

“Absurd!” my Mom explodes and launches into a tirade of criticism.

We are immigrants in America. We don’t get to vote, not yet. We’re some years away from having this right, this privilege — to vote. We appreciate America being our home and take nothing for granted.

But we can discuss and comment. We’ve lived in this country for almost a decade without any interruptions. We pay taxes.

So yes — it’s hard to understand how America has to choose — again — between two eighty-year-old (plus-minus) dudes, of whom everyone’s tired. This note is not about political preferences. Whether you are a Trump hater or think Democrats are ruining America, don’t you find it alarming that the choice is so pathetically limited? This is not a rhetorical question. I wonder how Americans interpret this situation.

Yes, I’m guilty of age discrimination, especially when there is a lot of “baggage” that both candidates bring. I hope to be running marathons at eighty-year-old. But an eighty old Presidential candidate with…