“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.
JFK setting out to shutdown the state mental hospitals and federalize mental health broke the system, and that was also during the era when the left started shutting down flop houses and boarding houses where a person could get room and board from perhaps an old lady or two.
That was also the era when the left and the courts were blocking vagrancy laws and being able to force people into mental health care.