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Trusting the science isn't about the science being right, it is about it being able to provide the best evidence, based on the best information we have at the time. Science is always developing, but at the social level, our process isn't scientific at all - it is all opinion based, with no evidence required...
Where is your evidence that Biden is mentally challenged... or has been forced to continue on?
Biden has a stutter, which he's had all his life. He is not a good public speaker and has definitely lost the fire that he had 4 years ago... but he's not mentally challenged and the debate, while awful to watch, wasn't elder abuse.
Do you have any scientific evidence to back up your claims that he is? Has he failed any scientific cognitive tests, or are your assertions just opinion-based?
The debate was awful. I couldn't watch it all... but can you imagine trying to debate someone that lies constantly? You have to continually correct the other person, and push your own points across... while the other person just gets to make up whatever they want.
In my opinion, CNN should have had real-time fact-checking... a whole team of fact-checkers to either interrupt the candidates with corrections, or put the corrections up on the screen... by letting candidates just say whatever they want, it wasn't an actual debate.
Personally I think the main problem with both US, UK and Australian politics is the two-party system. When you have 5+ parties, voters can choose the candidates/parties who they think are best, rather than the least worst.
The other problem is that voters mistake charisma for competency. You've said that you're not a great public speaker at the moment... but you write so well and you're clearly super smart - you've probably be great at governing, but probably wouldn't "win" a debate. Should we be choosing people who speak well, or who have a solid track record?
Being in the US compared to Australia, it is wild how much politics is entertainment, and how much people's identities are wrapped up in their personal politics. If people actually voted the proposed policies in play rather than the person, I think we'd all be doing a lot better... and for that I blame the media representation and desperation for advertising revenue and clicks.
Hahaha, for the record (and should be obvious here) I am also a grumpy old man. I look forward to sharing a porch with you and some rocking chairs yelling at the mutants to get off our dirt patch.