Let me begin this opinion piece by saying that I have a lot of respect for Joe Biden, and while I disagree with some of his prior political positions, I’m not against him as a person, and I hope that he has a very pleasant day. That being said, Joe Biden is not mentally fit to be President of the United States. Members of the left repeatedly point out that Donald Trump is mentally unfit to be president, which granted, he is, but it’s hypocritical to pretend that Joe Biden’s brain is in mint condition.

Joe Biden is, simply put, all over the place. He’s in New Hampshire and thinks he’s in Vermont. That’s not a joke – he actually was in New Hampshire and said he was in Vermont.

His memory lapses and mistakes have been given a label, “gaffes.” When Trump misstates the location of a shooting, you’ll see thousands of tweets about how he’s unfit to be president and mentally unstable (which, again, he is) but when Joe Biden does the exact same thing on the exact same day… crickets.

One of the most abhorrent things Donald Trump has ever said is “you cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” Except it wasn’t Donald Trump that said it. Another abhorrent thing Donald Trump did was flex his friendship with segregationist senators, except it wasn’t Donald Trump, it was Joe Biden. Do you see where I’m going with this?

Biden’s healthcare policy is one of the worst healthcare policies in the Democratic field. At least Kamala Harris has the decency to pretend to support Medicare For All. Biden says “he’s for Barrack,” despite former President Obama speaking out in support of Medicare For All. I don’t think he’s actually for Barrack, I think that he’s for UPMC. An estimated 125,000 people will die in the first nine years of Bidencare from uninsurance. But yeah, why’s Bernie so angry?

Both Trump and Biden both have a history of… inappropriate behavior toward women. Don’t get me wrong, Trump is definitely worse off (he’s been credibly accused of sexual misconduct by 24 women) but at the same time, that’s like saying “well, Jared from Subway isn’t that bad because at least he’s not Jeffrey Epstein.”

Again, and I cannot reiterate this enough, Donald Trump is still a worse person than Joe Biden by far. Ultimately, I respect Biden as an individual and I hope he has a pleasant rest of his life. We’re all human, and we all make mistakes. That being said, I sincerely hope he doesn’t spend the rest of his life trying to become President of the United States.

The man fabricated a war story on the campaign trail. If Trump had done this it’d be on MSNBC for hours upon hours, but instead they talk about how Biden is the most “electable” (which they also said was the reason why Hillary should get the nomination over Sanders in 2016). Maybe, just maybe, “electability” is a buzzword for cable news and corporate media to halt any and all progress and stop progressive candidates from helping people discover class consciousness, ultimately resulting in them losing some of the political power they have, and having to pay a little more in taxes on their yacht the size of Point Park’s campus. But that’s an op-ed for another day.

My fear, in all of this, is that I feel like I’ve seen this movie before. An establishment Democrat fighting for corporate interest, without anything special about them, who has an inability to get people, specifically young people, excited. The thing everyone said when they voted in 2016? “I’m picking the lesser of two evils,” and that ultimately ended up with a raging narcissist who’s funneling taxpayer money into Mar-A-Lago as you read this op-ed. My parents, and many other middle-aged people say, “he is the one to beat Trump” (despite Sanders often polling above him in head to head polls), and that’s why I disagree. 

I just want this ungodly nightmare to end, but most importantly, I’m afraid of what Donald Trump will do if he gets a second term and doesn’t have to worry about re-election anymore. I’m afraid that Joe Biden will leave everyone staring at their TV on election night, quietly avoiding everyone else in the room, with a weird sense of deja vu all thinking to themselves “how did this happen?”