The guy is obviously mentally ill.... which we will keep seeing more of because the Republicans love to cut away at mental health funds ... especially for the Vets.
All lefties are mentally ill.
And you are wrong. We will be seeing fewer and fewer of them as we start lodging them where they belong..in mental institutions, or in prison.
Reagan closed all of the state mental hospitals while he was Governor , which became a trend across America... This is why you see everyone in the streets , like this guy..
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The mental institutions were closed at the demands of progressives who bought into "medical treatment" studies (which turned out to be frauds) that would make it possible to medicate and release all the crazy folk.
So they could then funnel that money into welfare programs that would give them food and money to use on the street.
"Many of the psychiatrists involved as practitioners and policy makers in the 1950's and 1960's said in the interviews that heavy responsibility lay on a sometimes neglected aspect of the problem: the overreliance on drugs to do the work of society.
"The records show that the politicians were dogged by the image and financial problems posed by the state hospitals and that the scientific and
medical establishment sold Congress and the state legislatures a quick fix for a complicated problem that was bought sight unseen."
"Dr. Robert H. Felix, who was then director of the National Institute of Mental Health and a major figure in the shift to community centers, says now on reflection: '
'Many of those patients who left the state hospitals never should have done so. We psychiatrists saw too much of the old snake pit, saw too many people who shouldn't have been there and we overreacted. The result is not what we intended, and perhaps we didn't ask the questions that should have been asked when developing a new concept, but psychiatrists are human, too, and we tried our damnedest.''
"Dr. John A. Talbott, president of the American Psychiatric Association, said, ''The psychiatrists involved in the policy making at that time certainly oversold community treatment, and our credibility today is probably damaged because of it.'' He said the policies ''were based partly on wishful thinking, partly on the enormousness of the problem and the lack of a silver bullet to resolve it, then as now.''
"One of the most influential groups in bringing about the new national policy was the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health, an independent body set up by Congress in 1955. One of its two surviving members, Dr. M. Brewster Smith, a University of California psychologist who served as vice president, said the commission took the direction it did because of ''the sort of overselling that happens in almost every interchange between science and government.''
''Extravagant claims were made for the benefits of shifting from state hospitals to community clinics,'' Dr. Smith said. ''The professional community made mistakes and was overly optimistic..."
HOW RELEASE OF MENTAL PATIENTS BEGAN
