[Pelham]

“We should be prepared to institutionalize such people. “

This cannot be emphasized enough. The policy of de-institutionalization that became popular in the 60s and 70s is a great failure.

It’s no good for the mentally ill, and it’s no good for the cities where they wander the streets.

” We can design mental hospitals to give them a sense of having an apartment. It doesn’t need to be old-style of 4 white walls and a sparse bed.”

There is some of this being done here in OC, but only on a small scale. A much more humane way of treatment than the old prison looking institutions.

[Chickensoup]

The severely mentally ill need a private room, a day room, safe environment, access to the out doors and work to do if they can. All backed by techs who will insure that medications will be taken. With sufficient oversight to prevent abuse.

[semantic]

AS we well know, proglibs tend to be pretty emotional. For some reason, they lack the ability to see/act logically. So, in a lot of ways, they're like teenagers without fully developed mental faculties. As we know, teens don't listen - they usually have to learn hard lessons firsthand. (Of course, as parents, our task is to make sure the lessons are only minor in nature.)

So too the eventual adoption of new era mental institutions. It will have been around 50 years since CA closed down the old style mental hospitals. The thinking at that time - primarily driven by our friends on the left - was that it was inhumane to deny basic civil rights to those who had committed no crime.

Well, like progs everywhere, especially in the Bay area and SF, hard lessons learned firsthand have a way of stimulating rationalization. When leftists finally come around and agree to open new facilities, it will be under terms they define. That is, it will "humane" and the advancement of basic civil rights to "help" the mentally ill homeless.

The change in thinking will be something to watch. It should be pretty fun - it's like your teen maturing in their 20s and actually becoming a "normal", rational and measured individual. So too the progs, because only they can make the new institutions happen. And when they move in a collective wave, Katy bar the door.

[Yaelle]

We completely agree.

[Professional]

The Dems want death/disease, they have fairly openly stated they think the world is over populated.

So, take urban areas and bring in the “homeless”, because with them come death/mayhem/disease like the plague if we just give it a chance.

needles, unsanitary conditions, sex, rats, feces, urine, unclean bedding....

Perfect scenario for a pandemic disease....