Your hard-on of hate for Reagan aside, you are completely wrong. The deinstitutionalizing of the mentally ill started long before he became governor or president. Cali started emptying the asylums back in the 1950's, and on a Federal level, it started in the Eisenhower administration and was ramped up during Kennedy and Johnson. The solutions were drug regimens and the move to community based treatment centers. Court decisions around that time also took many of the commitment powers away from state and local officials.kalm wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 7:15 pmUmmmm…Saint Reagan was largely responsible for deinstitutionalizing the mentally ill both as governor and President. On account of psychiatry might lead to communism or something.
Similar to ripping Carter’s solar panels off the White House, old Ronnie quickly dispatched Carter’s new policy of enhancing mental health care.
It was a failure of government on so many levels.