Posted on 11/20/2025 9:22:17 PM PST by Cronos
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Brilliant comment and spot on.
A frequent comment over at Patriots.win is “Make Mental Hospitals Great Again.”
Many see the need for them, what we’re doing, nothing, is absurd. On the other hand, many don’t trust the government to control who is involuntarily committed. Would you trust the leadership of your local Dem party with this? The people who forced Covid vaccinations on the world?
So we’re damned if we do, damned if we don’t.
I remember Michael Sarrazin in the Flim Flam Man starring George C. Scott. Both did a great job in that film.
Worst propaganda piece ever. The introduction to the current state of mental health care in THE US and cause of deaths and destruction of many people. Gave Thomas Szaz twisted psychology a foothold in the country:THE MYTH OF MENTAL ILLNESS.
Leftists used this to empty mental hospitals and begin a holocaust of deaths and displacement that has taken down our country and gave rights where none should have been had.
This is truth. It is coming back. So much suffering though.
Yes Rocky Horror brought perversity transvestitism and homosexuality out of the corners of the Vilage and right into mainstream coolness.
Mental hospitals were local and state controlled.
Thanks. I really didn't like the film either. I've wondered all these years if it was just me.
Why crazies are on the streets today, screaming at the sky.
I’m no feminist, but when I watched this again not long ago I was struck by how crudely misogynistic it is. Somebody had some severe mommy issues here.
Excellent post and I was going to write something similar - about this very movie being the catalyst - asking the questions: “Are they really the mentally ill? Or are WE mentally ill for locking them up?”
This led to mental institutions closing en masse and the patients released “back into society” - with all kinds of new legal “rights” not to be locked up in a “snake pit” or forced to take drugs - drugs that either kept them calm or kept their mental illness in check.
Now, we have the catastrophic results: Unmedicated, mentally ill homeless all over the streets of our cities and in our parks making them unusable, decreasing the quality of life for them and for us. California (OF COURSE) has the most - with the billions ear marked for “helping the homeless” disappeared.
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