I spotted the only trump* sign in the neighborhood, this morning. First GOP sign I've seen, here.

[Siwsan]

And it's on the lawn of my elderly neighbor who has Alzheimer's.

He was always a big union guy, and a Democrat. We'd casually talk politics when ever we were both outside doing yard work. Then I started to notice a change in him as he became less and less prone to friendly chats and much more to complaining. I didn't see him doing much, outside.

Then he started getting really argumentative and snarky about anything I did on my property, that he would have done different. AND he poisoned a line of small 'volunteer' saplings that were on MY property line. I let that go because I was going to cut them out, anyway, but it was so out of character for him. He'd have been the first to offer to help me clear them out. Finally, he started getting involved in a lot of fender bender, and beyond, car accidents.

Last autumn his son stopped by to let me know what was going on, in case I saw his father wandering. And I chatted with his care giver.

Having gone through the Alzheimer's experience with my mom, 2 aunts and 2 uncles, this makes me sad. And, to be completely honest, once I learned of his situation, I fully expected to see just such a sign in his yard.

[Wicked Blue]

1. Could he have Faux Nooz poisoning?

When my husband's oldest brother retired, he became a devotee of that propaganda outlet. He became a tr*mp supporter and right wing nutcase.

[Siwsan]

3. That's always possible

My mother was never, in any way, political until she started watching that garbage. Then she went completely around the twist.

We were talking about how she would have viewed a trump* presidency. She was a hard core, old school Roman Catholic who had very little tolerance for anyone who went against ANY of that church's teachings. She wouldn't even allow 2 of my cousins to be pall bearers at my Dad's funeral because they were divorced. Yea, that hard core. I'd have HOPED she wouldn't have rationalized some sort of support for that creature, but who knows. She did rationalize some weird stuff like the Pope being wrong on just one topic: the death penalty.

Fortunately, as her Alzheimer's progressed, she paid less and less attention to anything political and became very quiet and child like.

[FakeNoose]

2. There's an easy solution, if your neighbor's son wants to do it

The son can make it impossible for his dad to watch Faux Noise by removing the channel from his TV remote. It's a little sneaky, I know, but the dad will forget all this Chump stuff quickly when he can't see it on TV.

Once the election is over, none of this will matter anyway. Faux Noise is like poison for these people who have low critical thinking skills.

[Siwsan]

4. Yea. I do have complete compassion for what he's going through. Well he and his son.

Alzheimer's a game changer, for any family.

[Wicked Blue]

5. Yes. My mother-in-law had it for several years before she passed away

It was extremely hard on my father-in-law, but at least most of their grown children helped when they could.
One of my daughters, who was in high school at the time, went with my husband every other weekend (a 200-mile trip one-way) to spend time with her grandmother, play cards, listen to old stories over and over, while my husband took his dad out for a walk, to do errands, etc.