I am seeing some comments suggesting that Joe Biden is beginning to suffer from dementia and should not be elected. Let’s deal with squarely and prove that such remarks are simply designed to pull votes away from Biden.

First, as an 83 year old man, I know full well that as we age, our short term memory begins to slip a bit. But that is not dementia and we can and do adopt strategies to overcome such losses. A person with dementia begins to lose the sense of who he or she is. He or she begins to lose the ability to develop and carry out comprehensive long term plans to reach goals. The goals themselves tend to get muddled. A demented person has no ideas of who he or she can rely on to work with him or her to get productive things done. The dominant emotion gets to be frustration, anxiety, and fear. NONE OF THOSE are true for Biden.

Joe Biden knows full well who he is, what he values and wants to accomplish, and on whom he can rely to work with him and get things done. His goals are clear and consistent Joe is full of empathy, energy, righteous indignation, and purposeful aspiration. Therefore, any suggestion that Joe is demented is a deliberately false aspersion.

On the other hand, let’s look at Donald Trump. As a person who studied human development in my graduate study, I believe that I can say with certainty that Trump is a hollow shell of a man, a person with permanent development delays which he will NEVER overcome. He is frozen at the stages of moral and personality development of a 2 to 3 year old. That means that all that matters to him is himself and what he wants, legal or not, moral or not. He is incapable of empathy of concern for others.

Trump is also frozen at the level of a pre-adolescent in his cognitive development. He lacks the ability process complex information and concepts. That is why he does not read and why he does not listen well to detailed information. He has great difficulty in linking concepts and complex information to form clear and accurate conceptualizations or cognitive maps. That means that he incapable of forming solid and complex plans, and incapable of following such plans to actually achieve productive goals. In other word, Donald Trump is, and always will be unfit for ANY public office.