AuntB is parroting the left’s rewrite of history.
It was JFK that started the emptying of the mental hospitals with his 1963 law to take control and funding from the states and shift it to the federal government while emptying the big state hospitals and send them into the communities.
“AuntB is parroting the left’s rewrite of history.”
Thanks.
I wasn’t interested in who and how the de-institutionalization got started. All we know is it has been a total disaster, especially when combined with the rot in our school and religious institutions, the rise of mammoth drug cartels, and the Chinese and Mexicans flooding us with drugs.
I was marveling at how from the very start CA handled mental health problems and, when the state did not have a lot of resources or tax base, spent a lot on addressing mental health in the mid 19th century. It’s quite the contrast to the 21st century. Those people 125 years ago would be absolutely appalled and our civic conditions today.