{"id":156125,"date":"2024-07-06T20:49:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T04:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=156125"},"modified":"2026-03-20T18:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:44:12","slug":"liberals-blinded-to-bidens-senility-by-their-own-speech-codes-7-5-24-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=156125","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Were Blinded To Biden\u2019s Senility By Their Own Speech Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s the biggest difference between the liberal and conservative news media in the United States over the past five years? Conservatives have consistently described Joe Biden as senile and liberals have consistently derided this and demanded expert evidence. <\/p>\n

Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write for Axios July 6, 2024<\/a>: <\/p>\n

It is a fair conservative critique that many reporters ignored obvious signs of cognitive decline… Rarely did other outlets follow our exclusive reporting on accommodations for Biden's aging \u2014 shorter hours for public appearances<\/a>, fewer improvisational<\/a> or late-night moments<\/a>, and the rise in handlers<\/a> and devices<\/a> to help avoid tripping<\/a> and falling. Some reporters enabled the White House by piling on reporters on social media who questioned Biden's lucidity…<\/p>\n

There were so many early signs. Biden rarely did tough interviews \u2014 much, much fewer than his predecessors. It was almost always friendly questions on friendly terrain…<\/p>\n

The denials \u2014 including the favorite line that Biden works so hard he exhausts the youngsters \u2014 strained credibility then, and look ludicrous in retrospect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Conservatives spotted Joe Biden’s cognitive decline years before liberals because conservatives don’t accept ageism and ableism as real moral categories.<\/a><\/p>\n

We all have concepts of the world and some are more useful than others. Israel, for example, had concepts about the enemy that left it unprepared for the enemy’s attacks of October 6, 1973 and October 7, 2023. The United States had concepts about the enemy that did not prepare it for attacks on December 7, 1941 and on September 11, 2001. Author Chimamanda Adichie gave a TED talk on \u201cThe Danger of a Single Story.\u201d Summary<\/a>: “The risk of the single story, the one perspective, is that it can lead us to default assumptions, conclusions and decisions that may be incomplete, and may lead to misunderstanding. Operating from the context of a single story can prevent us from a more complex, nuanced view of a situation.”<\/p>\n

By July 2, it became clear to me that Joe Biden would go due to the desperation of the situation<\/a>. At this point, most of the political elite believed that Biden would stay due to precedent. I don’t know as much about politics as they do, but if I am right, it is due to my having a superior conception – that the dire nature of the situation will prevail over precedent. <\/p>\n

Similarly, most political elites believe that Kamala Harris will be the Democratic nominee for president if Joe Biden steps down. I do not. Due to the dire nature of the situation (that Kamala Harris has provided Democrats with no basis for believing that she can defeat Donald Trump), I believe the Democrats will select a different nominee. <\/p>\n

Who’s the boss? Not the president, not the Senate majority leader, not the MSM. The situation is the boss. The situation determines the comparative power of all other factors including law and precedent. <\/p>\n

Liberal elites had a concept regarding Joe Biden prior to the June 27, 2024 debate that ageism and ableism are so morally dangerous that we should require considerable evidence from experts before publicly raising the question of his competence. <\/p>\n

How many of liberalism’s moral categories prevent people from seeing reality? Because of “racism,” we can’t discuss in polite company that different groups commit crimes at different rates. Common sense suggests profiling people according to crime statistics but liberals have made that, in many cases, illegal. <\/p>\n

That which you are not allowed to say out loud is increasingly not thought. Once liberals speech codes are internalized, conservatives can’t even think like conservatives. <\/p>\n

Liberals want to stigmatize frank and easy discussion of reality including the obvious fact that different ages, sexes, races, and religions have different gifts. <\/p>\n