{"id":232277,"date":"2024-07-22T14:51:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T19:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/?p=232277"},"modified":"2024-07-22T14:52:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T19:52:12","slug":"kamala-harris-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/blog\/kamala-harris-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, We Have Work to Do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
This humble spirit <\/strong>would like to join the crowd in commending President Biden on passing the torch. Even avid Biden supporters should acknowledge that what we saw wasn\u2019t a \u201cbad debate\u201d; it was a sad and painful display of significant cognitive decline. On the chance that he defeated Trump, the odds of which were getting smaller by the day, does anyone really think he could have made it through another four-year term? After all the tumult of the election, the country might have been faced with having to invoke the 25th<\/sup> Amendment as early as February 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s hard to know exactly how we got here, who knew what and when they knew it\u2014and what they reasonably could have been expected to do about it. Medical science has advanced considerably since my day (that being 1838-1863) and extended the human lifecycle considerably in advanced countries like the United States, but unfortunately it hasn\u2019t stopped the decline of people\u2019s cognitive abilities. In fact, it\u2019s made things worse. Back in the nineteenth century when people died at a much younger age, there was limited opportunity for their cognitive abilities to decline as they do now. In simplest terms, our physical longevity is outstripping our mental capacity. Hopefully that will be remedied in the not-too-distant future, but right now we have a lot of people struggling with the impacts of old age, including responsibility for parents and relatives who may be in a state of cognitive decline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n