Is the US system now in crisis?

FILIPINOS have nothing to do with the United States presidential elections, but for deep political and cultural reasons, we tend to look at them as also our own. At least 4.5 million Filipinos live in the US, and many more at home identify very strongly with the American political system. We have never quite gotten rid of the effects of American colonialism. Thus we cannot help expressing our own preferences and are deeply disappointed that the Democratic and Republican parties are unable to offer us a satisfactory choice in the coming November election.

Between the Republican candidate, former president Donald Trump, and the aging Democratic incumbent, Joe Biden, the choice has been described by some as one between a convicted felon and an old man who can no longer remember many things. This became evident during the first presidential debate between the two candidates at the CNN Techwood Campus in Atlanta, Georgia. Trump was in his element wholly while Biden was a meltdown. This prompted several heavyweight media institutions and pundits who used to be highly supportive of Biden to call on him to pull out of the race.