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It's not about Biden's track record. It's about his ability going forward to run a very taxing campaign against a literal fascist while also performing the duties of the presidency.
And the likely answer to that is "Not nearly as energetically as he needs to for me to not be playing Russian roulette the night of election day".
Why would he not perform his job as well as he has for the past couple years? How does a bad debate performance tell us more about his ability as President than his performance... being the current President?
People talk about getting rid of Biden as if it wouldn't be a huge risk to declare a new candidate at this point in the race. This has happened before, and the party that switched candidates lost the presidency.
And why isn't anyone calling for Trump to step down? He's rambled and lost track far worse than Biden has yet we don't see the same calls for him to leave the race.
People are talking about Biden's stamina. Meanwhile he's done over a dozen appearances since the debate while Trump has done zero.
This is why we lose. Republican voters show up and vote regardless of what they think about the candidate. There's a lot at stake here, and Democrats refuse to accept the lesser evil because it's not a perfect solution.
We should be talking project 2025 instead of Joe Biden's brain farts.
Man, if you don't understand how aging works, I can't help you.
You're missing the point. If he has dementia then his Presidential performance would show it.
So he either performed well as a President with dementia.
Or he is developing a new, extremely aggressive case of dementia that has been building just for the past couple months.
Well there is one more option that makes more sense to me. He doesn't have dementia, is still a good President, and just had a bad debate.
But maybe I really don't understand aging. Guess we'll know by whether he is drooling and shitting his pants in the next few weeks as the "aggressive dementia" either does or does not manifest.
That is exactly how mental decline works when you're older. You have very fast dips in ability. Regardless, he has lost the confidence of his party.
That's sometimes how it works.
Mental decline can be anywhere from slow to rapid, or even not at all. Rapid decline is not the only way old age works.
There are folks in their 90s that are sharp as a tack. There are folks in their 60s and 70s with wild, teenager-like mood swings.
Saying rapid mental decline is how old age works is, at best, disingenuous.
So we can expect to see him get much worse in the next few weeks right? And if he doesn't, what does that say about his dementia?
I'm not convinced it's dementia (yet anyway). But the fact remains that no matter what it is, it's affecting him in a huge way and people see it.
The problem is that he's the only one who can change the current situation and he seems hell bent on standing firm instead of facing the music.