I forgot to mention that there is more to the left’s demand for coverage for mental illness. I know because I live in WA State and have been seeing and hearing about this for a while.
The left is using mental illness as an excuse for reformative justice. All murders and druggies who commit crimes are just mentally ill, unless the crimes can be described as hate crimes. A man who violated a restraining order and murdered his pregnant wife, a Muslim who shoots up the Jewish community center, killing and maiming several people, and locally, a recently paroled druggie who went on a shooting spree, killing six people, including a police officer, all mentally ill. No, death penalty, not even time in jail, just sent to a mental hospital for a couple of years.
That is Restorative Justice, not Reformative. I just saw what I typed. I don’t know what’s the matter with me.
That’s what made me nervous about living in Steilacoom. Western State is just down the road.