Okay, I don’t delve into politics much. Anyone who has followed this blog for over ten years knows that. I think I’ve written two posts, or maybe three that could be considered political in that stretch of time. So why am I breaking habit and writing about Washington’s doings now? One simple reason: I’m a little scared about what’s going on.

We’ve got an election coming up next year. It’s all we’ll hear about for the foreseeable future, just like every other election year. Endless ads on television and radio. Signs all over the place. The usual. This one is different to me though, and the reason is simple, the candidates.

In this corner, we have Joe Biden, current President. Joe is taking a lot of heat for many of his policies. So of it I can understand; some of it seems undeserved. But that’s just the nature of the job. That’s being President. Half the country is going to hate you at any given time. What worries me is Joe seems really fragile these days. He falls in public more than Gerald Ford famously did. He seems addled sometimes. Not to put to fine a point on it, the man is old.

I just watched my father-in-law pass away from Alzheimer’s Disease and to be completely honest, his early symptoms were not much different than the behaviors Joe is exhibiting right now. He wouldn’t be the first President with dementia in office. It’s pretty clear now that Reagan was in the early stages of dementia when he was in his last term and look at some of the train wrecks he caused in the second half of that second term. Biden may be the second. Still, as I said before, the man is old.

If Joe runs again, which seems inevitable, he will be almost 90 if he survives his entire term. He’s just too old for the rigors of the Presidency. He doesn’t have the physical strength to bear up under the tremendous burden of the office. His mental faculties seem to be fading, and that is dangerous in a man who controls nukes. It’s why we worry about Putin.

Despite all this, the Democrats seem hell bent on running Joe again. No one has seriously mentioned any sort of challenge. So that makes the candidate for Vice-President crucial since he or she is most likely going to be taking over when Joe keels over in office. Hopefully it won’t be Kamala Harris. She just hasn’t shown much leadership as Vice, and it would be dark days if she had to take over. Hopefully, the Democrats will replace her with someone more suitable, because so much depends on it, mostly because of the second reason I’m scared.

I’ll cut to the chase — my heart cannot take another four years of Trump. The man is singularly unfit to be the POTUS. He is a criminal. He’s under indictment in four separate cases, all stemming from his time in office and his handling of top secret documents. Let me say it again — the man is a criminal. Despite that, however, he holds a two digit lead in all the relevant polls over the rest of the Republican field. It seems like a miracle would have to occur for him to not win the nomination.

Why? Why has the great majority of the Republican Party sold their souls to Trump? What did he do in his first term besides getting us on the bad side of almost all our allies and starting a trade war with China. His base is happy he’s “tough” on things other Presidents just ignore. They ignore them for a reason. That reason is global stability. We have enough crazy leaders in charge of nations as it is without adding another of our own to the mix.

Why can’t all the rabid Trumpites see just how delusional the man is? He started a riot over losing the election. Who does that? 200+ years of elections in this country and some of them really close and painful for the loser, but we’ve never had a riot of people storming the Capitol Building to stop Congress from certifying the election. Trump did that. Three years later and he’s still spouting the Big Lie that the election was stolen from him. He lost. Why can’t he accept that? Al Gore did and his margins were much closer than Trump’s. Anybody remember hanging chads?

The group that disappoints me the most in their support of Trump is Christians, especially so called Evangelical Christians. The man has been married enough times to give Elizabeth Taylor a run for her money. He is unbelievably profane and he worships no one but himself, yet because he is anti-abortion, so many Christians are ready to support anything he does. As a Christian, it doesn’t make me angry; it truly makes me sad.

Still, unless the legal problems entangle Trump and make him ineligible to run for President next year, which he’s fighting tooth and nail, he’s going to be the Republican candidate and as we’ve seen already, enough people are enamored with him that he can win the White House and then what will we do? Some people will be giddy, I’m certain, but I for one tremble at the thought of four more years of the man.

So as voters it looks like we are faced with a choice between the devil and the witch. I don’t think either outcome is going to be good for the country, but then again, what do I know? I just keep hoping for the best.

Love y’all and keep your feet clean!