We Can't Get Much Crazier. Right?

Our country is obsessed with the idea that if we only cared enough ... threw enough money at it ... or had the "resources" (whatever that means), then the mentally ill would all be happy and healthy and no threat to anyone.

What complete bullshit.

First, people who are schizophrenic are often also on drugs and or liquor, and have probably not been participating in normal society for awhile. So the potential benefits of treatment have no real payoff for them. They often have rap sheets well before they hit twenty. And they are frequently menacing to others.

I walked my dog this morning past a man who held some kind of walking brace and was smacking it against a brick wall. I carry, so I'm not afraid, and I swear they can smell that, because he stopped beating the wall as we walked by. 

But people on NYC subways do not have this luxury. They are at the mercy of whatever lunatic gets on their train, and do not think the mentally ill are unaware of who they can scare the shit out of.

It's not at all a perfect science to even diagnose, yet alone treat medicinally, any kind of abhorrent behavior. It can range from PTSD to brain abnormalities to side effects of who knows what.

But here's the bottom line: a lot of us who do function in polite society also have a lot of emotional trauma. I deal with mine going back to my earliest childhood every fucking day. I am not an addict or an alcoholic and I have managed to make it to my late sixties without going to the pokey, so yay me.

We don't have humans who are willing to babysit other--often extremely violent--adults 24 hours a day. It's not a realistic expectation. And if someone doesn't want to take prescribed medication, what are you going to do? Force it down their throat like a Strasbourg goose? There are laws against that, too. 

And not all medications work the same for everyone, even if they do take it. And if they continue to abuse drugs or alcohol, or operate on the assumption that they do not have to moderate their behavior to be among other humans--what then? WHAT THEN, PEOPLE?

Then you better fucking hope you have a Marine nearby to help you out. And I guarantee, after what the latest one went through, fewer will probably be willing to come to strangers' aid in the future. 

You can thank NYC's prosecutor Braggadocio, a real fucktard POS.

Y'all need to wake up and face reality. There is no such thing as a permanent ceasefire, no treaties ever last long, and people who are violent or disturbing are a threat to society as a whole.  

This is called "real life." The idiot who shot the CEO is about to find out that even his family's fancy lawyer will not save him from life in prison, or being gang raped while there. 

No one in the prison system will give a flying fuck about his back issues, or his ridiculous manifestos. 

And the health insurance industry isn't about to change regardless, let alone because this numbnut took someone's life to make himself feel important.

We all have a right to leave our homes with some kind of reasonable expectation that we may come back that evening. 

And to the asshole POS antisemitic loser who was voted out of office and claims "no white people" are ever killed in broad daylight---what about the 22-yr-old Georgia jogger or the 12-yr-old raped and strangled by two Venezuelan gang members? You are just delusional, and frankly, you detract from any real issues of racism with your ridiculous statements.

The left has been voted out, and this is why. Y'all are yourselves psychotic, and always pointing fingers everywhere but where they belong. Just shut up already. And hope to god someone you love isn't pointlessly murdered for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

And if you want to be healthier, start by taking better care of yourself. You can't eat shit, smoke, do drugs, drink like a fish and never move and then expect the insurance industry to fix everything for you. And I have no illusions about how insurance works, and btw, that's not just for health insurance. It's a business, and it's set up to make a profit.

That won't change anytime soon. Anymore than people who are a threat--for whatever reason--deserve protections they do not afford anyone else.