I wonder how much of an increase in taxes the folks at the WSJ would be willing to pay to bring back asylums? The longer I live, the more the quote "the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there" comes to mind. I don't really understand what the asylums were like, but I see that old America that they resided in as a very different place that believed more in public investment. These days, the idea of compelled vaccination is pretty controversial, so the idea that we are going to take away peoples' liberty and force them to take psychotropic drugs after we've imprisoned them seems beyond belief.
None of that is to say I don't think it's probably the right answer, rather that I just don't see it happening in modern America.
None of that is to say I don't think it's probably the right answer, rather that I just don't see it happening in modern America.