re: #13 calochortus

Or at least just sweep the mentally ill ‘under the rug’, so to speak. I’ve heard a lot on right wing sites about how everything was great until the bleeding heart liberals started worrying about the rights of mental patients and then they all got turned loose on an unsuspecting society. There were abuses and neglect as well as people who weren’t mentally ill, but were, in effect, incarcerated because of a wrong diagnosis.

Yeah, that kind of thing is why I get wary of people who pine for “the good old days.” I tell you. We may live in a flawed time but I am glad I live when I do because I really think someone like me could have been institutionalized generations ago.