“We used to have insane asylums where the mentally ill were confined and they tried to help them. Whatever happened to them? Why are the mentally ill wandering the streets?”
Conservatives hated them because they were too expensive and liberals wanted the mentally ill to be free to vote.
My experience with the mentally ill is that they have periods of lucidity. Long periods, that they use to fool the world into thinking they are ok, that and the new meds hide symptoms. These people need to be institutionalized because a "flare up" can be deadly to all.