Liberals saw 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and decided inmates were the brilliant but quiet Indian types... more sane then the people running the place, and inmates needed to BE FREE. Free to be victims of violence, free to beg on the streets, free to cause civil breakdowns...
As usual liberals were 'feeling good about themselves' based on nothing but feelings - the evil and misery - not to mention homelessness, jumps in street crimes, violence, and despair, were NOT their fault. They ( the liberals) had the best of intentions and they felt sooooo good about themselves.
That said, what they're up to now is to use this tragedy to create systems that will hurt free speech, create gulags, and move the marker toward 'totalitarian'.
Yes, we do have to deal with the issue of mental illness - but not by dems with hidden political agendas.
Dems want to define those who oppose their ideas as 'mentally ill'. They've moved in that direction already. Too bad our 'we suck less' press can't look into this - see the changes that have been made about what is and isn't 'mentally ill'. It's political. Which is why they wouldn't be able to 'see' it anyhow. Is having a gun collection a sign of mental illness now? I believe there's been movement in that direction. Or opposing homosexual 'rights'. These are political issues that are bleeding into mental health.
These issue needs open debate - not the MSM providing cover for liberals and mocking conservative concerns - not more blood libel... not double standard coverage. But we all know that's not going to happen... So we wait, trying to stop them from making a bad situation worse...
I always heard it was Ronald Reagan what sent all the mentally ill into the streets.
It was the liberals?
I did read One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest....well at the time I thought it was just so darling...the mean “system” giving perfectly normal but thinkingoutsidethebox people lobotomies.
Well dag, two other books my young liberal self once believed as true...THE UGLY AMERICAN...hell I even wrote President Kennedy asking how to join the Peace Corps after I read this tome about unused expressways in Cambodia as old Cambodian women swept with brooms worn down to nubs.
And of course....Carson’s SILENT SPRING...oh how I wept for the raptors and their fragile eggs that would not bear the weight of their incubating mothers.
Hey....it’s why I’m so smart now...I was once one of them.
But serious, I always heard Ronald Reagan put all the crazy people on the street.