'If you can survive a campaign, you should be able to govern.'
Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Representative Eric Swalwell wasn’t able to make much of an impression with just under five minutes of speaking time on night two of the first Democratic debates, but he did give voice to a growing concern within the party. “I was 6 years old when a presidential candidate came to the California Democratic convention and said it’s time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans,” he said. “That candidate was then-Senator Joe Biden.
I don’t see so much thoughtful discussion of the ways in which age could be a player. Which is what I tried to address a little bit in a Washington Post op-ed, talking about how, yes, your risks for certain things do increase with age, but so does your functional status and what you’re able to get done. From everything I understand, if you can survive a campaign, you should be able to govern. It seems pretty arduous.
The election might help open our eyes as a society to the idea that what I’m calling elderhood is now decades long and has as many subphases as childhood and adulthood. So, let’s start talking about this. The leading candidates are in this “elder” category — look at what they’re doing. But if somebody is going to be in their mid to late 80s, I am getting a little concerned at that point. The longer you live without cognitive impairment the more likely you are to go the distance, so that’s good. The more physically active you are the more likely you are to remain that way. I don’t know the answer for sure. Does it begin to make me a little more worried about whether the person would see through their term as they move into their 80s? It does.
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