April 23, 2010 at 8:24 pm
#692949
Ken
Participant
Actually…
Reagan did it.
Ronald Reagan and the Commitment of the Mentally Ill:
Capital, Interest Groups, and the Eclipse of Social Policy
http://www.sociology.org/content/vol003.004/thomas.html
Seeing the cause of specific social ills currently in our face does not mean this problems did not exist, it means that part of the problem, the defunding of mental hospitals, the end of spousal commitment conventions and the undermining of unions and the middle class, all came together at a time when the role of the political parties was being swapped as the southern Dems fled the aftermath of civil rights concessions.