Posted on 05/18/2018 6:28:30 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
The article answers you.
During the early to mid eighties liberal judges shut down the bulk of the nation’s mental institutions through judicial activism.
Over strenuous opposition from families of the mentally ill and the local communities.
How crazy, that a movie could have that impact.
I’ve heard similar things about that movie with Jane Fonda, The China Syndrome, which dealt with nuclear power. I’ve heard that movie, which coincidentally was in theaters at the time of the Three Mile Island incident, helped the anti-nuclear movement, so that development of nuclear power plants was just about stopped in its tracks.
These same people tell us NOT to feed feral cats. They multiply.
TELL ME THE DIFFERENCE !!!
Most of them used to be called mental patients and resided in mental hospitals.
The LEFT changed all that.
The LEFT created the problem and as usual the solution is more money from the taxpayer.
“California’s top-two primaries are the single greatest act of voter suppression today.”
I disagree. I say this because in many races the Republican voters are outnumbered by Democrats two-to-one and more.
In a conventional election these Republican voters are irrelevant to who wins in November.
But like in one of the Assembly races where the two leading candidates were Democrats there was a lefty-socialist named Darrell Fong and a law and order Dem named Jim Cooper.
Cooper won because he directly ran to get the Republican vote and that shut out the leftist.
In the old system the socialist would have won.
Yes, this system doesn’t make it easier for the GOP to gain anything in California but the GOP surrendered California to the Democrats decades ago. At least this way a growing number of Dems are having to move to the right in order to win their elections.
That’s not great, but it is an improvement.
There’s nothing “progressive” about these people or the political philosophy they espouse.
L
That’s why we moved to Tennessee. If you strike up a conversation and you don’t know where your gas tax dollars go, you’re considered intellectually substandard.
“why didn’t we have all these homeless in 1960 or 1970? What changed in society so that we are compelled to tolerate homeless encampments set up wherever these vagrants decide to pitch a tent?”
The ACLU sued the State of California back when Reagan was Governor. Courts found that institutionalizing mentally ill people against their will somehow violated their civil right to be insane.
So nearly every State mental institution in the country was closed and the patients were “freed” to wander the streets without being medicated.
It’s right there in the Constitution.....someplace.
I haven’t found it but some judges did.
L
It’s a great state, isn’t it? We just need to get rid of our RINO governor and for us, our RINO Representatives. I wrote to Phil Roe when I first moved here, wanting him to vote for someone other than Boehner as Speaker. I got back a letter full of Praises for Boehner. I was done with Roe at that point. He’s deep state for sure. He had a real conservative run against him last time, but unfortunately the guys campaign fizzled and I don’t think he even made it to the ballot. Hopefully next time.
Liberal judges started issuing rulings in the 60’s and 70’s that people who were involuntarily committed to mental institutions had to be turned loose. Well they were in those institutions for a reason. When turned loose, they couldn’t make it in society and started living on the streets. The rise of drug use in the 60’s also contributed to the problem. The third pillar is socialism. They started subsidizing it in the name of “compassion” or “solidarity” or whatever other mushy-headed reason they cited. If you subsidize something you get more of it. If you tax something you get less of it. Basic economics.....which is of course anathema to Socialists.
Mr. Sg has a friend who has regular conversations with what seems like everyone in three counties. They really get the word out. Here’s hoping....
Where does that awful picture come from?
I always cringe when I see it posted.
How crazy, that a movie could have that impact.
No real data, just emotion and rhetoric magnified by the mass media.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/02/how-switchblades-were-banned.html
The 1970s era was when the whole notion of “tolerance” really took off. Kids were taught to be “tolerant,” that they cannot be judgmental about others, that all cultures were equally good. We have amost two generations now raised with these attitudes. These bums could pitch their tents on the front lawns of these “tolerant” people and daily defecate and urinate there and the property owners would still preach “tolerance.”
The ability to critically think about society and it’s problems was bred out of these tolerant people.
Gee whiz, no one could ever have predicted it.
It is so bad even my leftie friends can’t take it any more. This upscale neighborhood is filled with vagrants and thieves. Every week I hear of an aggressive bum attacking or threatening women at some fast food place or parking lot.
I would chisel your words in stone. Only common sense.
Front Page had some sad reports, such as
Tina Trent Michelle • a day ago
One of the official justifications— at least official in that landlords are assured by officials that it will augment losses — is that section 8 rents paid are set higher than market rates because tenants are likely to destroy the property.
I have been in many publicly subsidized apartments and homes doing home visits where the house is maintained beautifully, with careful decorations, arranged if shabby furniture, and food for the foster kids or grandkids or great-grandkids being raised there. It is humbling to see decency enforced among neighboring chaos. But I always knew what I would be walking into because we already knew these were the good clients. We also knew what we would find in the other ones. There is no mystery in any of this: we vigilantly enforced no standards. That was the policy, drilled into us on the grounds that nothing would be more evil than imposing a standard or judging someone.
I came to believe that some people did terrible things to their children because they knew if they wanted attention or more free stuff, they couldn’t just be a bit neglectful and get whatever perverse incentive they were seeking: they’d really have to make an effort to get those kids taken away. It would have to be unusually bad.
We colluded. Though many didn’t: I know many people who could not stomach the unethical demands of the job and walked away. It was always the policies coming from the diversity police that drove the good people away, not the work itself, sad as it was.
With homeless people, I imagine the same dynamic exists: the system is designed to reward the most dysfunctional within the larger cohort of homeless people, to enforce a non-judgment regime. - http://disq.us/p/1slq8ye
There was also a very influential author and lecturer during that era named Thomas Szaz, a psychiatrist, who promoted his anti-establishment view of mental illness itself and of its treatment. He was worshipped by the left, eager to debunk any restrictions on human behavior whatsoever.
He actually did recognize that modern medicine was trying to do away with the concept of sin and abomination and replace it with medical and social maladjustments for which they could prescribe treatments.
While much of what he said about the misconceptions about mental illness and treatment had value, others took his positions to extremes, attempting either to propose that there really is no such thing as mental illness, or that if someone is "crazy", it is society's fault.
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