Re: biden
Without engaging in a 1:1 conversation with him i cant make a fair asessment.
I would look for signs indicating "time travel" and for difficulty with open ended questions, new concepts, or with rejection of factual information that he disagrees with. (*time travel in this case, is jumping in and out of different eras, cogitatively speaking. People with some forms of dementia can be here and now one moment then be in 1962 talking about hippies the next.)
'Mr. Biden, what do you think Americans need to do to repair the legacy of slavery in our country?'
Well, they have to deal with the—look, there’s institutional segregation in this country. From the time I got involved, I started dealing with that. Redlining banks, making sure we are in a position where—look, you talk about education. I propose is we take the very poor schools, triple the amount of money we spend from $15 to $45 billion a year. Give every single teacher a raise to the $60,000 level. Number two, make sure that we bring in to help the teachers deal with the problems that come from home. The problems that come from home, we have one school psychologist for every 1,500 kids in America today. It’s crazy. The teachers are—I’m married to a teacher, my deceased wife is a teacher. They have every problem coming to them. Make sure that every single child does, in fact, have 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds go to school. Not day care, school. Social workers help parents deal with how to raise their children. It’s not like they don’t want to help, they don’t know what to do. Play the radio, make sure the television—excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the—make sure that kids hear words, a kid coming from a very poor school, a very poor background will hear 4 million words fewer spoken by the time we get there.
Now, personally, I chose driving because it's one of the most challenging activities nearly everybody engages in at some point, it involves crispness of reflexes, senses, and predictive ability. The vast majority of people who do drive are clearly not qualified to do so, as evidenced by the ridiculous accident statistics and horrifying fatality rates, but honestly I wouldn't have felt much better about riding in a car driven by the old fuckers running for president now if they were 40 years younger.
Though, if I was 40 years younger, I would have just been conceived, while Bernie and Biden would be damn near my age!
Is driving exactly like the executive office? Obviously not, in regards to the cognitive stresses and strains,
I'd say driving is easier, as I didn't go gray from driving for 8 years.