We need to have a discussion about a difficult topic: What to do with the mentally ill

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47. An inhumane society run by oligarchs,

in which human beings are perverted into "workers" running on a treadmill and kept continually desperate and uncertain about their ability to afford food, shelter, and care for their children and parents;

in which education is defunded and twisted into regurgitation for tests and debt traps;

in which health care is permitted to exist as a profit-seeking industry with a motive to create loopholes and deny care;

in which war is valued over investment in human beings, and in which we are continually lectured that "working hard" is more important than time and relationships with our family and neighbors...

in which isolation is bred by a cynical, soul-sucking media machine, ridiculously long work hours, and the systematic elimination of free and accessible public spaces to gather and enjoy one another...

All of this breeds mental illness.

The single most important step we can take toward addressing mental illness will be to wrest this nation back from the sociopathic, human-farming corporate forces that have commandeered it, and return it to the people to build something more humane and respectful of human life and dignity.