It's Time To Be Frank About Joe Biden

It's time to be frank about Joe Biden. He is slipping fast, and while one can laugh, say Joe's brain is melting, or count gaffs...the evidence paints a very sad picture; a familiar picture to anyone who is or has ever been close to someone with Alzheimer's disease. Living with my grandmother and watching her memory slip away is not an easy subject for myself or for anyone, but I cannot stop seeing parallels in Joe Biden's televised decline and my Gram's own fight against dementia.

She had her good days and bad days and as time went on her bad days outnumbered the good. Frequently she would forget the trajectory of a sentence mid-word and become angry when she could not remember what was happening. She would think that I was the same age as my uncle, or her brother. Sometimes I was a family friend; my own grandmother would ask if I knew her son. Long dead friends, family, pets, etc, had only just gone out of the room. Little things, day to day confusions, looping conversations and a loss of time (years, days, minutes) were the good days, the bad days were full of resentment toward me (or whoever she was with) for contradicting her memory or for telling her what to do, not knowing who we were or why we were there.

Every day was a new day.

I don't want to sound as if I am parading around my grandmother for personal gain or smug political satisfaction, this is a deeply painful subject that has caused me to learn and understand about Alzheimer's syndrome and to recognize the signs. And I think if more people might share their own stories, that maybe we can all have a better grasp on what is an impolite subject.

But politics is an impolite subject as well, and the purpose of my video is not to explore my grandmother's story but to compare her story to one Joe Biden, the ex-VP who cannot seem to recall the name of Barack Obama. The man whom would call himself the next president confuses his wife and sister. When asked simple questions he seems frustrated, confused and a little afraid. The days when everyone says Biden is missing could be understood better if we look at his public appearances through the lens of Alzheimer's syndrome. He genuinely does not know where he is, what he is doing or for what office he is running. You can call it exhaustion, you can say that the epidemic and the campaign has taxed him greatly...but so would the presidency. Frankly, Joe Biden is unfit for office, and while I am already critical of him, this is heartbreaking to watch. And it should break your heart too.