The Rude Pundit: On Mental Health, Like on Everything Else, Republicans Are Always Liars

[babylonsister]

https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2022/10/on-mental-health-like-on-everything.html

The Rude Pundit
Proudly lowering the level of political discourse
10/01/2022
On Mental Health, Like on Everything Else, Republicans Are Always Liars


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But we're talking about Republicans here. And they already rail against abortion while having or paying for abortions. They want to take away rights from LGBT people while being LGBT themselves. Hypocrisy is like air to these motherfuckers: they couldn't exist without it. So, yeah, they were fucking lying when it comes to their expressed desire to get people needed services for their mental health.

One Republican voted for the bill while 205 voted against it, including every single one I mentioned above there. Why? Well, reasons, of course. The bill would eliminate some arbitration requirements on disputes between employees and their health plan administrators, thus taking some power away from corporations, including big insurers. And then there's this truly, epically idiotic rant from Rep. Bob Good of Virginia:

"The China virus lockdowns of our schools resulted in an undisputed increase in mental health issues for our students, for our children. This bill is yet another leftist response to the lockdown problems that Democrats created. Thanks to Democrat lockdowns in collusion with their beloved teachers unions, students across this country are suffering academically and mentally."

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In other words, the kids need help but because the help is coming from Democrats, fuck those kids.

In otherer words, Republicans are goddamn liars about caring for the mental health of children or anyone, really. The easiest proof of that is that people still vote for them despite the fact that they are obvious liars. If you get everyone help with their mental health, hell, they might lose a lot of their voters.

[halfulglas]

1. Forced arbitration boards in this country are usually a joke.

Arbitration in theory is a good thing but in this country they are usually heavily weighted toward the side of business which is paying their salaries and so very hard for ordinary citizens to have their case judged fairly.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. I'ts a proven fact

Mentally ill people are less violent than the '' normal"population and they are more likely than "normals" to be victims of violence.

Everybody in distress needs mental health care. But focusing on mental illness and trauma as the biggest cause of violence is wrongheaded. Narcissists and sociopaths escape getting treatment for mental illness because they refuse to see they are the problem.

I would love to see a study about how much violence is caused by narcissists
and sociopaths compared to the "normal" population and the mentally ill population.

[thucythucy]

3. Excellent points! nt