Mentally ill people are the Left’s army. This should be abundantly evident to everyone who has even the remnant of a rational mind these days.
Here’s how the Left built this branch of its army:
* In the 1950s/60s started to demonize charitable institutions who supervise mentally ill folks whose families can’t care for them. “Supervision of the insane should be a State function; look at these charities! They are incompetent and a blight on the community! Those poor sick people have done nothing wrong and are being victimized -” (et cetera)
* State takes over “mental health” in the 1960s/70s. Extra funding enables doctors in state-run mental health facilities to perform such experiments as the lobotomy clinic where patients in dentist chairs receive lobotomies as though on an assembly line.
* Socialist Democrats pass laws regarding the inhumanity of keeping people who are simply mentally ill (and therefore incapable of committing crimes), so that they will not be incarcerated just for standing on a street corner babbling about how they want to kill people or something minor like that.
* Families unable to care for their mentally ill family members can no longer access any sort of treatment or at least secure supervision for same, and so are forced to care for them at home or turn them loose on the larger community.
* More State funding for the mentally ill, now for outpatient clinics and treatment centers. And “SSDI” which plunders the Social Security of taxpaying citizens who have little to no need for mental health services to help severely mentally ill people find apartments and jobs and so on.
* More State funding to promote a “path toward wellness” by providing vocational training and housing for the chronically mentally ill. (For which, if a church set up a work farm like that, they would likely face severe penalties.)
* Result: Chronically mentally ill people cruising around your hood at all hours of the night and day. Syringes littering the bus stop where you have to wait for the bus every morning to go to your job. That you’re taxed for. People having screaming fits in the street.
Grown men randomly trying to murder little girls in a public place.
LOL You should be a headline writer for the New York slimes.
In NYS, that's called post birth abortion.