The Problem Isn’t That Our Politicians Are Old, It’s That They’re Dumb

I never spent that much time harping on Biden’s age because I had been following his career for a long time and he always prone to saying stupid and horrible things, babbling like an idiot and generally acting like he needed a keeper.

Yes, there were clearly age-related or medical issues, but as Elaine said to Jerry, “You know, I often wonder how you’ll be like when you’re senile. I think it will be a smooth transition for you.”

After all the fuss about Biden’s mental capacity, his party replaced him with Kamala, and I defy anyone to argue that it was much of an improvement in functionality.

Despite being much younger than her boss, Kamala had trouble forming coherent sentences, understanding the policies she was supposed to be talking about, and having consistent views about much of anything.

Biden and Kamala may have been decades apart, but the underlying issue is that they’re both dumb narcissists who got by on the lowest common denominator and aren’t qualified for any kind of position of responsibility. Like a lot of other politicians.

That’s why setting age limits for political office is dumb.

An aging political class in Washington is prompting fresh calls for forcing older officeholders to step aside in favor of younger faces.

Working well past retirement age is an area of rare bipartisan agreement in Washington. President Trump will turn 80 this year, and Joe Biden left office at age 82, both breaking Ronald Reagan-era records for age in office. In Congress, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) is 92 years old, while Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) is 87. It isn’t unusual for members to die on the job, as three did in 2025 alone.

Rahm Emanuel, a 66-year-old Democrat and Washington veteran, recently called for a mandatory retirement age of 75 for presidents, cabinet officials, members of Congress and federal judges.

His brother, the Obamacare architect, suggested no one should live past 75 in an essay titled, “Why I Hope to Die at 75,”

There’s no mandatory retirement age in the Constitution. The American people have the right to elect idiots, old and young, and unless they’re completely incapable of getting out of bed in the morning, like the country’s first PhD socialist president, and turn over the government to their wife, then that’s that.

The problem with Biden wasn’t that he was senile. Or even dumb. It was that the entire administration and media chose to lie for him until it became more convenient to tell the partial truth. The institutional failure there wasn’t dependent on one person’s brain and can’t be fixed with an age limit.

There are people who shouldn’t be serving at any age and people who can serve at 90. Yes, everyone slows down, but some never leave the gate. And when they have an entire infrastructure of liars bragging about how smart they are, then what we have is a ‘coup’ in which the people we voted for don’t run the country. And that’s the real problem.

Presidents, senators and dogcatchers can be dumb, they can be old, but they need to be the ones making the decisions.

When they’re not, it’s a tyranny of bureaucrats using morons as stalking horses.