The American publication "The Atlantic" has long seemed to have been a supporter of the Democratic party in the United States. For many years the publication has published articles that tend to tell us about the failures of the Republican party in America, and gloss over failures of the Democratic party in America. So I was rather surprised to read the shocking story below:
The article was entitled "An Autopsy Report on Biden's In-Office Decline." It is about cognitive problems experienced by Joe Biden while he was US president from the year 2020 to the year 2024.
The lines below the title read this:
“ 'Five people were running the country,' a political insider told the authors of the new book Original Sin. 'And Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board.' "
We read this in the article:
"[The book] Original Sin suggests...Biden may have been losing his grip before he took his oath of office [in early 2020]. If this is true, Americans unwittingly voted for and were led by a president who was not up to the job, a state of affairs that certain among the Biden faithful seemed committing to concealing."
We read about various cognitive and memory problems that Biden displayed while US president from the year 2020 to 2024. We read about how a certain shadowy group of people seemed to be dedicated to covering up this reality. Biden won enough delegates to secure the Democratic party nomination in the year 2024, without being challenged by any major figure in the party. No governor of a US state challenged him for the nomination, and no US senator challenged him for the nomination. The only governor, senator or congressman challenging Biden for the Democratic party nomination was a little-known US congressman. The biggest figures in the Democratic party kept telling a story in the first half of 2024 that Joe Biden was fit to be president for another four years. That story was apparently not true.
But after a disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump, Biden dropped out of the presidential race. His vice-president Kamala Harris then received the Democratic party nomination, and lost in the year 2024 election, losing to Donald Trump.
You can summarize what went on like this: things were terribly wrong with the story line the Democratic party leaders were telling; but those party leaders kept telling that misleading story line. The thing that was terribly wrong was that Joe Biden was not fit to be running for re-election in the year 2024. But the leaders of the Democratic party kept their mouths shut about this unfitness, until Biden dropped out of the race. Such leaders misled us by telling us an "all is well" narrative that was not at all true.
There is strong reason to suspect that many members of the other major US political party (the Republican party) are massively guilty of the same type of deception. These days the strange actions and strange speech of the current US president (Donald Trump) cause very many to worry that the current US president is unfit for his job.
Very many are worried about the possibility of cognitive decline in the 79-year-old US president, including the Governor of California who not long ago said. "He's not all there." About July 16, 2025 President Trump complained about the appointment of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, apparently forgetting that Trump himself had given Powell the job of Federal Reserve Chairman. In late July, 2025 President Trump gave us a weird angry rant denouncing wind-power, a rant that some interpreted as a sign of cognitive decline. It included senseless-sounding claims such as the statement, " We will will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States, they’re killing us." Trump has repeatedly been photographed at meetings, looking as if he had fallen asleep. In a recent speech he four times referred to "Iceland" when he actually meant "Greenland." But leaders of the Republican party keep pushing an "all is well" narrative that seems to defy what the public observes.
An article mentions a letter Trump sent recently:
"Witness his recent unhinged letter to Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, in which Trump implied that he was entitled to seize Greenland owing to Norway’s failure to award him the Nobel Peace Prize. Where to begin? Norway’s government doesn’t choose the winner of the prize. Nor does it own Greenland."
The same article notes that in a long speech at the Davos forum in Switzerland, Trump repeatedly referred to Greenland using the word "Iceland." Trump recently misidentified his own father's birthplace, saying his father was born in Germany. His father was actually born in New York City. Then there is Trump's recent hasty abandoning of aspirations to win a Nobel Peace Prize, by the reckless launching of an illegal unprovoked war against Iran, causing many who had once supported him to say that this was the opposite of what he had promised voters. The stupidity of the war quickly became apparent as we saw the bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh all-girls elementary school, with more than 170 being killed, a large fraction of them young Iranian girls. The launching of the war by Trump was illegal. The US constitution gives the US Congress the power to declare war, and there was not even any congressional vote authorizing the war.
In April 2026, Trump's language became ever more unhinged. In a televised address to the nation on April 2, 2026, he said of the Iranians, "We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong." Trump then issued on April 5, 2026 a social media post threatening to make Iran a "hell," combined with obscene language, and the mocking statement, "Praise be to Allah." Then on April 7, 2026 Trump said this about Iran in a social media post: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." Very many were terrified that Trump would launch nuclear weapons on that night. Many in the US Congress responded by demanding that Trump be removed by means of the US Constitution's 25th Amendment, which allows for the removal of the president by a majority vote of his cabinet, whenever the president is unfit for office.
Today there is an article on how Trump recently posted an AI-generated image depicting himself as a healing Jesus with a ball of light in his right hand. But the carnage he caused in Iran is the opposite of healing.
There are some aspects of this situation comparable to the situation in biology today. When biologists attempt to explain things, they keep resorting to a very old theory of biology, the theory of Darwinism that was contrived in the middle of the 19th century, when no one understood the gigantically organized complexity of cells and human biochemistry. It is now clear that such a theory is enormously unfit as a theory to explain the vast heights of biological organization we observe. Advances in biology have revealed the enormous levels of hierarchical organization, fine-tuning, information richness and component interdependence in living organisms. Such advances have shown that Darwin's theory of accidental biological origins is very much unfit to account for the wonders of biology we observe, which everywhere look like accidentally unachievable works of the most brilliant engineering. But our biology professors keep pushing a misleading "all is well" narrative, claiming their moldy old 19th century explanation explains things well.
Just as the leaders of the Democratic party and the Republican party kept pushing a story line of "the very old guy is fit for the job" despite lots of evidence suggesting that this was not the case, the leaders of biology keep pushing a story line that the very old explanation of so-called natural selection is fit for the job of explaining wonders of biochemistry and cellular biology a billion times more impressive than anything Darwin ever learned about. We are being misled and misinformed by people who we trusted to tell us the truth.
The leaders of biology also continue to sell us a "brains make minds" theory dating from centuries ago, despite a huge wealth of evidence that such a theory is just plain wrong. That evidence is discussed at the greatest length in the posts of my blog here. The leaders of biology ignore such evidence, continuing to teach their outdated and discredited old theory of what causes minds, telling us "all is well."
It seems these days the misleading "all is well" salesmen of very old and unfit biology theories are like this:
And it seems that in recent years the misleading "all is well" salesmen in both US political parties have been like someone who designs a presidential campaign ad like this:
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