So fucking sick of people like this. They genuinely believe that every single homeless person in America is a hyper-visible, unmedicated schizophrenic who's too mentally ill to want to get off the street. Never mind that the vast majority are members of the working poor and live in cars, friends' places and transitional housing—doesn't get more invisible than that.
Universal housing would effectively solve the homelessness crisis and every counterargument is actually a supporting one if you have half more than half of a braincell. Yes, a lot of homeless people need additional (i.e. psychiatric) help, BUT THEY ALSO NEED HOUSING because poverty literally exacerbates mental illness. Yes, libraries shouldn't be treated as homeless shelters, which is WHY HOMELESS PEOPLE NEED HOUSING. Yes, a lot of people who're forced to live in squalor on a literal street corner smell, which is why THEY NEED HOUSING so they can have basic dignity and access to a shower.
These sick fucks need to talk with someone who's homeless. I used to provide services for many of them, and I honestly found more hope in humanity and soldiery in homeless people addicted to meth with schizophrenia than your average lib. These people's hearts, hopes, dreams, and desire to lift other people up was awe inspiring. Meanwhile, some lib "friends" of mine make comments about "our tax dollars".
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I spent a few years as a homeless wanderer and I met more homeless people who were generous and loving than in the rest of my life put together.
I really think there's something to when a person is "laid low" and humbled so to speak, that connects us to a more devine nature in us. I really feel if someone is looking to see where God is in this world, they should take a stroll along some railroad tracks, or under bridges.
I feel like it should be a requirement for public office
Yeah absolutely. We got a little local socialist clothes bank going, but now a lot of it is helping out with toiletries and stuff regularly for some of the same people. Honestly a lot of the people we support are more optimistic and less doomer than I am. Maybe because of how directly transformative even a bit of cooperation and solidarity can be when you're living on the streets.
A pet peeve of mine is that a just society ought to have a form of national service where everybody at regular intervals were required to go and do work for the common good, like helping people with addictions or the mentally ill.
Its like the argument that people make that everyone should be required to work food service and/or retail for like at least a week so that people would stop mistreating minimum wage workers who's jobs are hell. Sometimes empathy has to be forced. A national service thing seems like a great idea to me.