To the editor:

Very often families face the difficult decision of what to do about mom or dad or both of them when they’re no longer able to take care of their day-to-day affairs or themselves. All too often we hear stories of vulnerable seniors who are being stung by a scam to rob them of significant amounts of money. The uncomfortable decision to confiscate their car keys because they’ve become a road hazard is all too common.

If your parents are speaking gibberish and going off on tangents that aren’t germane to any conversation you have with them, the possibility of dementia or Alzheimer’s is a heartbreaking reality to consider. If you care about them, you do whatever you can to see to their well-being. You don’t let scammers fleece them.

You don’t wait until they or anyone else is killed in a car accident. You don’t ignore the overwhelming evidence that their minds are slipping. You take steps to ensure their safety: financially, physically, and emotionally. You don’t rely on an enabler to rubber-stamp them as being healthy and well. You don’t just tell your children not to ride with grandpa or grandma anymore. You don’t put your head in the sand and leave mom and dad to their own diminished devices.

Yet, the head of the current administration and his handlers are in full-speed-ahead, loyalists’ mode with its hand-picked “quack” deeming 47 healthy and competent, which is in distinct contrast with his routinely erratic speech and actions. They simply prop him up at a tiny desk, put a dubious executive order in front of him, and later explain to him what he’d just signed. And 47 is content to be so manipulated as long as he and his crime family are allowed to swindle the American public while enriching themselves even though they’re straying far out of bounds according to the emolument’s clause in the Constitution.

That’s right…he doesn’t know if he has to follow the Constitution. A sliver of truth. He said it. He doesn’t know.

Keith R. Klawitter

Morgan