California man fatally stabbed while dining with his daughter on his lap

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6. While this may be unrelated, the legacy of the Reagans governorship and what he did when President

set back mental health in California and the country for decades:

As President:

President Reagan and the Republicans taking over, the Mental Health Systems Act was discarded before the ink had dried and the CMHC funds were simply block granted to the states. The CMHC program had not only died but been buried as well. An autopsy could have listed the cause of death as naiveté complicated by grandiosity.

and as Governor:

"By the time Ronald Reagan assumed the governorship in 1967, California had already deinstitutionalized more than half of its state hospital patients. That same year, California passed the landmark Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act, which virtually abolished involuntary hospitalization except in extreme cases. Thus, by the early 1970s California had moved most mentally ill patients out of its state hospitals and, by passing LPS, had made it very difficult to get them back into a hospital if they relapsed and needed additional care. California thus became a canary in the coal mine of deinstitutionalization."

https://www.salon.com/2013/09/29/ronald_reagans_shameful_legacy_violence_the_homeless_mental_illness/

Many are oblivious to the damage the republicans have done to our country, and continue to do.

The point being, things don’t usually happen in a vacuum

The overt emergence of racism and bigotry that has been effectively “blessed” by this administration will be following us in the years to come