Decades of failed liberal policy have made it difficult to force people with severe mental diseases to be treated or institutionalized. And, then we are all shocked when these same dysfunctional individuals go on a shooting rampage like we witnessed last Friday.
As a result of public efforts to transform the mental health care system to characterize mentally ill people as “Just thinking differently”, and characterizing mental health care as some form of evil, we now have a system that makes it virtually impossible to get folks the care they need.Deinstitutionalization policies driven by “do good” liberals and the federal government put focus on limited bad acts. Kenneth Kesey wrote a story based on his LSD induced observations in one VA mental hospital. Once his story was put into film, his small example falsely characterized the bulk of mental health care as dehumanizing and made it impossible to force the Gerald Laughners and the Adam Lanzas of the world to get treatment.
Liberals and Progressives will focus on gun control after the Sandy Hook school massacre.
The focus should be on failed liberal policies that excuse rather than assist extremely dysfunctional individuals.
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