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So I was drinking beer and eating curry. Where did it all go wrong? Life's great mysteries!

 

Reply to: Reagan undid the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980

    (Score: 5, Interesting) by canopic jug on Saturday November 13 2021, @05:56AM

    by canopic jug (3949) on Saturday November 13 2021, @05:56AM (#1195865)

    When the Dems had all the asylums around the nation shut down

    You have been misinformed and/or are making stuff up. While Reagan is to the left of many of today's Democrats, he was in no way a member of the Democrat side of The Party. It was really the Reagan administration which started the seasonal closing of the looney bins [salon.com] in 1981, legally undoing the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 signed by Carter. Thereafter through the 1980s and 1990s it was also common practice to disperse the freshly released, mentally unsound by giving them one-way bus tickets to nearby cities, especially "blue" cities or even "blue" states [calmatters.org] where they promptly encamped on the street and lived for a little while eating from the trash and begging until succumbing to exposure, violence, drugs, or their illnesses. The closures and dispersals almost always happened during the early summer so as to best hide it from view.

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