tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post7787335517535077065..comments2023-09-27T11:13:44.435-04:00Comments on The Polygon: American PsychoPatriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-2116151031485937342012-12-17T17:48:48.597-05:002012-12-17T17:48:48.597-05:00Patricia, we all say we love our vets, but thousan...Patricia, we all say we love our vets, but thousands of them are living on the streets with PTSD due to cutbacks at VA mental health facilities. If our vets can't get help, what hope do disturbed teens have? And let's face it, most teens are disturbed, on some level.<br /><br />Why do they shoot up the schools? Because that's their world. Older sociopaths who snap don't regress and revisit their old elementary schools, they go postal at the Post Office or the Home Depot or wherever their last boss pissed them off.<br /><br /> As long as assault rifles are cheaper and easier to acquire than quality mental health care, we'll be burying our kids and hiding behind pulled curtains.squatlohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00041016017342355678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-16533626139271573672012-12-16T12:58:12.513-05:002012-12-16T12:58:12.513-05:00Plenty of money for wars, but none for mental illn...Plenty of money for wars, but none for mental illness. We can thank Ronald Reagan for that. As governor of California, he cut pretty much all mental health programs in California, thus turning countless mentally ill patients out into the street. It's only gotten worse since then. It's odd, though, that in a country where the "rugged individualist" is so highly mythologized, that when a government engages in mass murder, it's patriotic. But when an individual does it, it's a tragedy. And then we go on funding the military and making movies like Zero-dark Thirty, which glorifies unlawful murder and torture. It's sick.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11938379025774754317noreply@blogger.com