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I'm not really that worried about his age tbh, but I keep being told this means I'm afraid of something.
The political meta matrix surrounding Biden's age is a bunch of bullshit. Anyone expressing concerns with his age should worry about who his vice president is. There's really nothing to fear there unless you're a conservative worried that the Dems could pivot off Biden's death in office into a 14-year stretch of democratic administration. That is basically the death of the living GOP.
I dunno - personally I think his age is a whole third thing. There's: (a) I am alive and healthy and well and President, there's (b) I am dead now, so control passes over to my VP, while I go sit in my coffin for... forever, and then (c) I am old and so while I seem to be health enough on most days, I am also unreliable in that at any time I could zone out and miss a crucial detail in a meeting, before having to make decisions with literally nuclear consequences.
A vote for Biden would hopefully, in practical terms, translate into a vote to separate out the Commander-In-Chief role (that needs a much more active presence than e.g. a mere speaker behind a podium) from the other aspects of the Presidency, except that is simply not how the Presidency is defined.
And, I should point out, the former at least has some hope of working out the way we might want it to, whereas for Trump there is no hope at all that he would not hold on tightly to the reigns of power, and he could literally decide to assassinate someone on a mere whim, again.
There's also Regan's, and likely Trump if he wins, d) "I'm basically a vegetable being propped up by advisors."
(he said the quiet part out loud:-P)