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Personal Care homes exploded all across America and a lot of people had jobs that required nothing more than baby sitting adults.
Yes, there were serious mental problems that perhaps (only because I don't know) should have been institutionalized.
MY inner pain was seeing magnificent red brick buildings being razed and some othe functional building put in it;s place.
Those red brick buildings had a character all their own that I instinctively knew were now on the list of extinct things in human life that humans caused.
And this ties in with homelessness. Isn’t it true, that we aren’t allowed to enforce vagrancy laws or laws against panhandling? Haven’t there been some court cases on these subjects?
Putting homeless people in asylums might solve the problem of street people. But mass shootings aren’t carried out by street people. We need more than new buildings and employees. We need laws allowing for nutjobs to be taken from private homes and put into asylums for the rest of their lives. Trying to get those laws through the mess of liberal Democrats, libertarian Republicans and penny-pinching Koch money recipients will be well-nigh impossible.
Too bad so many of the mentally ill are seeking the Democrat nomination of the Democrat party and others are holding press conferences on the steps of the Capitol.
Too bad so many of the mentally ill are seeking the Democrat nomination of the Democrat party and others are holding press conferences on the steps of the Capitol.
We don't need "more" background checks, we need better data available for existing background checks.
This also means establishing a threshold for reporting, so that seeking mental health treatment is not an automatic disqualifier.
I dunno, do we have enough capacity to hospitalize all the Liberals?
The Dems want to leave room to house their political enemies.
Inpatient wards for Democrats.
One flew over the cookoo’s nest?
How many will be put in crazy wards due to political beliefs, due to folks like Joe Kennedy doing what he did to his daughter Rose?
That would be about the same time it was well understood that men can't be women, even if they "feel like it", that homosexuality wasn't "the same love" as marriage, that nobody worried their kid would be kicked out of school because he said the g-word (that's "gun" for you in Rio Linda). So good luck ever getting the politics out of the way long enough to actually, you know, help those with mental illness -- because they're just too good of an issue to exploit.
Something must be done. The question is, what should be done.
We do not have the infrastructure to make all these people “patients” , and I hope we do not want to just warehouse them like many were in many of the institutions closed in the sixties.
Part of me likes the idea, but it is also ripe for abuse.
I think it would effective to get many homeless people off the street. Better for them. Better for us.
But it wouldn’t do much to stop violence. I don’t think we want a system where anyone can get forced into the nut house because their neighbor says, “Oh, he’s a lunatic. He’s going to snap any day now.” That’s really going to get out of hand very fast.
Respectfully to PDJT, please consider the following.
The sad truth is probably that Americans struggling with personal problems aren’t necessarily mentally ill per se. Yes, they undoubtedly need counseling. But they also need to have their public school, anti-USA socialist indoctrination corrected.
Ten.something years until the earth ceases to exist because of politically correct global warming for example. That’s depressing.
Start with Congress.
I’ve been pondering this for a long time, and think I may have a workable system.
1) Individual States will fail at this because it costs too much money.
2) Nobody would, could or should trust the federal government to do this.
So the solution might be for groups of states to form a compact, with some ground rules:
1) One of the states would host the facility, with the other states paying for how many mentally ill they want to put in there.
2) Two be placed there, doctors at the local, county and state level would have to independently agree that they need to be confined. And the doctors at the facility from each state would have to vote on admission. But once in, to be discharged, the opposite process would be used before they could be released.
3) The facility would be subdivided into areas best suited for them, such as a coma and dementia area. An untreatable mental illness area. A treatable mental illness area. A criminal mental illness and dangerous criminal mental illness area. And I’m sure other areas as well.
Remember: it was the Left who drove most mentally ill out of appropriate care.