This is why I hesitate about the idea of bringing back forced institutionalization and mental asylums in modern America. It was a mistake to abandon these ideas post WWII, but bringing them back in the current era would lead to political dissidents getting institutionalized while the mentally insane homeless would be left free to rot on the streets.
This is why I hesitate about the idea of bringing back forced institutionalization and mental asylums in modern America. It was a mistake to abandon these ideas post WWII, but bringing them back in the current era would lead to political dissidents getting institutionalized while the mentally insane homeless would be left free to rot on the streets.
The threat is literally that the inmates would be running the asylum.