For reference, a random woman I was talking to in SF in the early 2000s blamed the city's insane violent bum problem on ... Governor Reagan.https://twitter.com/JDHaltigan/status/1372675739510841351 …
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
He did empty to state run institutions on to the street, so there may be more merit to that attribution.
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Replying to @green_groacer
That's wrong on a few levels: The push for deinstitutionalization was a progressive push from academia and with lawfare, Reagan was governor during the surrender not accurate to attribute it to him Reagan was last governor in 1975 - how many street people are alive from 1975?
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @green_groacer
Key milestones in dismantling of involuntary psychiatric institutionalization (major source of modern permanent urban homeless population) were SCOTUS O'Connor v. Donaldson (1975) and Addington v. Texas (1979). Agree blaming Reagan for it indicates lack of understanding on issue.
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Replying to @MetricReject @CovfefeAnon
Ok so we agree deinstitutionaluzation is a major source of permanent urban homelessness, and that Reagan signed LPS act (which was bipartisan) and had the goal of accomplishing that. Why shouldn’t he bear responsibility for it?
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Replying to @green_groacer @CovfefeAnon
SCOTUS ruling on O'Connor was unanimous and applied nationwide If Reagan had vetoed L-P-S Act (probably political suicide given climate) I don't see a delay of at most 3-4 years (assuming his veto was not bypassed by legislature or courts sooner) making any noticable difference
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If the issue had been partisan or politically contentious I think you could argue Reagan caving was significant - e.g. his signing of 1986 Simpson–Mazzoli amnesty bill - but in this case I tend to view his action as basically negligible - there was no coalesced opposition to it
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Replying to @MetricReject @CovfefeAnon
Ok I think I understand your argument better: it was basically negligible in the arc of history, which I think I agree with
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Exactly - but "the arc of history" isn't some force of nature - it's what progressives pushed for but since it didn't work how they thought it would ("the institutionalized are just as sane, but they're oppressed") the blame then falls on the nearest progressive villain - Reagan
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