Dissident Soaps (@Dissidentsoaps)

JFK started "deinstitutionalization" by signing the Community Mental Health Act of 1963 (the last bill he would sign in his life.) It aimed to close down large, state run mental asylums in favor of smaller, community based facilities that would provide the same capabilities closer to home. His sister, Rosemary, had suffered from a botched lobotomy and spent much of her life alone in a distant asylum. LBJ almost immediately signed the Mental Health Amendments of 1967, granting broad rights to those considered mentally insane. Ronald Reagan signed the Lanterman-Petris Short Act, virtually ending the concept of involuntary commitment of the mentally ill as we knew it at the time. He then aggressively cut the budget for the community health clinics, resulting in their rapid closure throughout the 1980s, and a never-before-seen rise in violent crime in America. This resulted in the 1994 Crime Bill (cue speeches of tough talking Joe Biden and Bill Clinton talking about "getting these animals off the streets,") three strikes laws in many states and the rise of mass incarceration. Now in the past 10 years, "justice reform" pursued primarily throughout Soros appointed District Attorneys and Judges has set those people free from the prisons. Basically a 60 year campaign to prioritize the treatment of the mentally ill and criminals above the law abiding, productive members of society has led us to this point.