The Killing Fields – Ep 26-330

Let’s talk about something that would have sounded absolutely insane in America twenty years ago.

The President of the United States is having to rebuild the machinery of mental-health treatment because we decided, as a society, that putting seriously disturbed people on the streets was somehow enlightened.

President Trump’s executive order is aimed at restoring civil commitment and expanding the ability of states and local governments to provide institutional treatment for people with serious mental illness who are dangerous, unable to care for themselves, or living on the streets. The order explicitly calls for more flexible civil-commitment standards and institutional and step-down treatment.

And here’s my question:

How crazy did America have to get before somebody finally decided we needed to bring back the institutions?

Because you look around this country and you see people who don’t merely disagree with you. They seem to have lost their grip on reality.

You have people who celebrate political violence. People who cheer when conservatives are attacked. People who can look at the killing of innocent children and somehow find a way to justify it. People who destroy property, threaten their political opponents, intimidate people who hold the wrong opinions, and then demand that the rest of us pretend this is perfectly normal political behavior.

And we’re supposed to believe the problem is everybody else.

We’ve watched the normalization of violence. We’ve watched criminality become a political virtue. We’ve watched people who should know better turn destruction into activism and hatred into an identity.

And that’s the great irony.

The damage isn’t limited to the people who get physically killed.

There are people who kill dreams.

They kill initiative.

They kill ambition.

Kevin Jackson has been called, the “white-collar” Joe Rogan. Given their similar backgrounds in TV, comedy, and martial arts, it’s easy to see why people enjoy Kevin’s show so much.

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