There used to be psychiatric hospitals but those closed down thanks to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. The situation today is far worse than any abuse that happened back then.
Right. Cuckoo nest was the Three Mile Island for deinstitutionalization. Leftist banged the drum for patient rights. Patients were portrayed as political prisoners. Drugs and community services were supposed to be the solution. It was all a charade to destabilize civil society. The humane thing to do is protect the insane from themselves and others by taking them off the streets. If they were in Canada, they’d be euthanized.
Not only “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” but WHOREALDO RIVERA’s “reporting”.
There may have been a surplus of Nurse Ratched types.
Ever wonder why there were so few mass killings before the 1970s? I remember three mass murderers between 1949 and 1970. all crazies.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-first-mass-murder-us-history-180956927/
Howard Unruh, 1949. Considered the first mass murderer, So dangerous he died in a mental hospital in 2009.
Richard Speck, 1966. Murdered eight student nurses with a knife. Died in prison.
Charles Whitman, 1966. killed many from the Texas Tower. Had a tumor on the brain, killed on site.
Then in the 1970s, the mental hospitals were closed down, the crazies declared “sane” enough to walk the streets and murder rates took off like a rocket.
Here is partial list of people who would have been in a MENTAL WARD before many of the ASYLUMS were shut down, crazies declared “sane” and dumped on the streets.
ALL CRAZIES allowed to roam the streets...
Mark David Chapman who murdered John Lennon
John Hinckley Jr. who shot President Reagan
Robert John Bardo who shot Rebecca Schaeffer
David Berkowitz, the .44 Cailber Killer.
Jared Laugher who shot Gabby Giffords.
Pat Purdy, released from a mental hospital, allowed to buy guns, then shot up the Stockton School Yard.
Patrick Sherrill who shot up the Edmond Post office.
James Oliver Huberty who shot so many at MacDonalds
This is just a SHORT LIST t of people who were crazy enough who would have been in a mental hospital before they were closed down in the 1970s.
When you add the MASS MURDERERS and CHURCH and SCHOOL SHOOTERS who would have been shown to be insane but allowed to roam freely you will begin to understand why it is...
LONG PAST TIME TO REOPEN THE MENTAL WARDS AGAIN!
Now we can add another name, Decarlos Brown Jr. who knifed Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska.
Nick Reiner who is accused of murdering his parents Rob Reiner and wife with a knife.
Rita Loncharich, 65. Knifed by a crazy.
Cheyenne Kastens, stabbed 40 times by another crazy, Lemar Beasley.
It is true that an artsy movie back in the 70s, completely misrepresenting the dangers of mentally ill people, wrongly demonized having safe spaces to protect them and protect others from them. That lie has led to this sacred cow homeless phenomenon covering our sidewalks. Most people don’t understand that. I appreciate you mentioning it.
I've always been fascinated by the fact that the rise of liberalism can be tracked with the closing of asylums. The homeless and democrat populations exploded.