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dj_narwhal t1_jah74b4 wrote

Reply to comment by NJP220 in New Hampshire ordered to phase out practice of keeping psychiatric patients in emergency rooms by greenhousecrtv

You mentioned the bad but did you ever think of all the money we saved billionaires when Reagan cut all the mental health facilities?

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Quirky_Butterfly_946 t1_jahdvta wrote

While Regan closing mental health institutions left little to no safety net for people, you have to admit that those facilities had been in steady decline for decades. It got to the point where care was non existent, people languishing, abused, neglected.

The mental health industry did not pick up the pieces, and often times non profits had to do what little they could to get people into group homes.

So to lay this at the feet of only Regan, is a disservice to all other segments of society that did nothing to provide needed services.

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dj_narwhal t1_jahpc2e wrote

I am aware Reagan was only the face of a much larger problem. Your comment reads like if DeSantis gets elected and closes every single public school on the first day of his presidency and you said "well you can't blame this all on DeSantis schools were already bad" because other right wingers before him spent a lot of time intentionally destroying the public school system. I also don't fully blame Reagan since his brain was mostly pudding for 3/4 of his presidency.

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Baremegigjen t1_jaipc3p wrote

The “great communicator” could read a script with the best of them and for the most part memorize many of his lines. Little if any of what he said publicly was original.

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occasional_cynic t1_jahv8ip wrote

You want to go back to asylum's? Really? Also, they were in the process of closing when he was elected. Hyperbole that he waved his hand and cut funding for them is ridiculous.

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ZacPetkanas t1_jahzsln wrote

> You want to go back to asylum's? Really? Also, they were in the process of closing when he was elected. Hyperbole that he waved his hand and cut funding for them is ridiculous.

Forty years on and Reagan is still the shallow-thinker's boogeyman. If only there had been a Democrat president with a majority Democrat congress since 1988. Oh well, what could of have been I guess.

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