When I visited the USA, I was shocked at the number of clearly not sane people that were wandering the streets, shouting at things only they could see in their minds, etc.
Those are just the visibly mentally ill people, a vast number of others go under the radar.
In my country I’ve seen people like this maybe twice in my entire lifetime, in the USA I saw a dozen over a 6 month period. It was WILD. It’s something you should expect to almost never see in your lifetime, if you’re seeing it with any regularity? - There’s something very wrong.
These people need to be in mental healthcare, be it a mental hospital for those in most serious condition, or varying levels of care and assistance further down.
But… They don’t have a functioning healthcare system in the USA, let alone mental healthcare. All they have really are private companies acting like vultures picking at the dying masses pulling cash and misery out of them.
They’re the richest failed state I’ve ever seen. The wide dissonance between their existence as a functioning first world nation and their existence as a state with a deeply crumbling failed interior that’s only further falling apart year after year is kinda wild.
I really hope they can have a bit of cultural and societal revolution and right the ship, there are so many wonderful people there and so much to fight for.
But I think for all their supposed cultural love of fighting for their rights and freedoms, they’re just too oppressed by the rich and the powerful to organise and fight for a better nation :-(
See, the problem is, they’re not used to thinking that the state should look after it’s people and their well being. The polititians hide this behind “free will” and so they leave indivudals to do whatever they like. This is all good, but everyone needs help once in a while… we’ve all had our ups and downs, but people there are used to dealing with any downfall by themselves. Sure, this strengthens some individuals, but others… they fall down a rabbit hole 🤷.
So, they see nothing wrong with the way the state is being run and that’s why they don’t aso for changes by the state. Plus, a large portion of the US is not well educated, which of course dumbs down critical thinking.
Not a US citizen, just my 2 cents on your comment.
Which includes being mentally ill in the streets. Despite what you are saying, it’s not because of a for-profit system, it’s because SCOTUS has literally ruled it to be illegal to involuntarily commit people who are not an imminent danger to themselves or others (a for-profit system actually benefits from involuntary commitment). This means that any mentally ill people can simply refuse treatment and roam the streets and that’s exactly what they do.
When I visited the USA, I was shocked at the number of clearly not sane people that were wandering the streets, shouting at things only they could see in their minds, etc.
Those are just the visibly mentally ill people, a vast number of others go under the radar.
In my country I’ve seen people like this maybe twice in my entire lifetime, in the USA I saw a dozen over a 6 month period. It was WILD. It’s something you should expect to almost never see in your lifetime, if you’re seeing it with any regularity? - There’s something very wrong.
These people need to be in mental healthcare, be it a mental hospital for those in most serious condition, or varying levels of care and assistance further down.
But… They don’t have a functioning healthcare system in the USA, let alone mental healthcare. All they have really are private companies acting like vultures picking at the dying masses pulling cash and misery out of them.
They’re the richest failed state I’ve ever seen. The wide dissonance between their existence as a functioning first world nation and their existence as a state with a deeply crumbling failed interior that’s only further falling apart year after year is kinda wild.
I really hope they can have a bit of cultural and societal revolution and right the ship, there are so many wonderful people there and so much to fight for.
But I think for all their supposed cultural love of fighting for their rights and freedoms, they’re just too oppressed by the rich and the powerful to organise and fight for a better nation :-(
See, the problem is, they’re not used to thinking that the state should look after it’s people and their well being. The polititians hide this behind “free will” and so they leave indivudals to do whatever they like. This is all good, but everyone needs help once in a while… we’ve all had our ups and downs, but people there are used to dealing with any downfall by themselves. Sure, this strengthens some individuals, but others… they fall down a rabbit hole 🤷.
So, they see nothing wrong with the way the state is being run and that’s why they don’t aso for changes by the state. Plus, a large portion of the US is not well educated, which of course dumbs down critical thinking.
Not a US citizen, just my 2 cents on your comment.
“Cultural love of rights and freedoms”
Which includes being mentally ill in the streets. Despite what you are saying, it’s not because of a for-profit system, it’s because SCOTUS has literally ruled it to be illegal to involuntarily commit people who are not an imminent danger to themselves or others (a for-profit system actually benefits from involuntary commitment). This means that any mentally ill people can simply refuse treatment and roam the streets and that’s exactly what they do.