Father is slowly losing grip on reality, having these wild ideas and then getting defensive when challenged, saying how he was a “colonel in the Air Force”

I’m not posting this to trash my dad. I’m honestly just trying to sanity-check what I’m seeing and figure out if I’m overreacting.

Over the last few years he’s had a pattern of jumping from one huge idea to another with almost no planning or relevant experience behind it.

First he wanted to run for Congress. That went nowhere.

Then he talked about starting his own entertainment company. Again no background in that field.

Now he’s talking about starting a caregiving company. His reasoning is basically that because he was a colonel in the Air Force, he understands leadership and can run any kind of organization. Whenever someone questions the logistics (licenses, insurance, hiring trained caregivers, etc.), he gets extremely defensive and falls back on “I was a colonel, I know how to run things.”

The problem is his credit is already terrible, and he tends to jump into these things without thinking through the financial side at all.

It’s starting to feel less like ambition and more like he’s detached from reality about what it actually takes to start and run a business. Every time someone pushes back, he interprets it as disrespect rather than concern.