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He gets so close-

Violent crime has risen over precisely the period we have shuttered these psychiatric institutions. And you know what? The number one psychiatric institution today is jail. It’s prison. And they don’t do a very good job. And now you then get the calls to clear the jails or to have commuting of sentences or shortening of sentences. People leave those jails in a worse psychiatric condition, often, than when they even entered.

Yes! Yes!

We can do this again learning from past mistakes without those abuses. I don’t think I want to be pumping psychiatric institutions with pharmaceuticals into people.

Seems reasonable.

Faith-based approaches – there are better ways to do this.

Oh for fuck's sake.

And, of course, the ironic thing is that Ramaswamy is a pharma bro.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, we have a term for alternative medicines that have been shown to have a positive effect on patient and are backed up with evidence. That term is called, medicine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ramaswamy is a pharma bro.

Seems not to be the greatest salesman from my point of view. Unless he sells faith in a vial.

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[–] banneryear1868 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Faith-based" is the weasel word here, insert your meaning. The reductive correlation of violent crime rising as psychiatric institutions shuttered leaves out the economic context. Public healthcare isn't on the table, this is just redistributing the effects of not having proper care available for everyone and claiming it's a solution. "Let the churches deal with it instead of the prison system." Is he advocating we decriminalize and reduce sentencing? Are churches in a position to hide/harbor what the law determines to be a criminal? No talk of re-allocating police budgets.

I mean I'm not going to tell my friend with Asperger's that he should abandon his accepting church community. I blame the fact that our economic system deems him as a worthless burden, unless laws are in place that force employers to treat him with the same dignity as everyone else and accommodate him. The fact he can't access a career a "normal" person could is a huge part of the problem.

[–] Furbag 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, is this the insufferable a-hole trying to out-crazy Trump and still polling almost dead last?

He admits that people with mental health disabilities are just locked up in prisons and not given help (true), but then says let's bring back insane asylums and not give them medication or therapy, just let Jesus take the wheel.

To anybody who thinks this is a good idea, if Jesus could cure them of their mental afflictions, you wouldn't need the insane asylums to begin with.

What he is describing is a just prison system by another name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Running for Republican nomination as a non-white person who also isn’t a Christian isn’t the most realistic move. It seems like he’s trying to bring up religion and allude to Christianity to make people not notice he’s a Hindu.

[–] brlemworld 3 points 1 year ago
[–] Spacebar 3 points 1 year ago

I think he has a fringe right wing bingo card he's trying to fill out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

He is just afraid the temples are running empty

[–] homesweethomeMrL 3 points 1 year ago

Not engaging with anymore republiQan horse-race crap. It doesn’t help, they’re obviously way past even discussing and it only serves the Murdochian Evils to talk about them.

So, No.

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