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.
Meanwhile we live in one of if not the most incarcerated society in human history, with extremely inhumane and draconian prison sentences. I cannot emphasize enough how shocking it is to go back and read about prison sentences for pretty serious crimes back in like the 60s-70s and see the sentences the US used to hand out before the War on Drugs and "Sentencing reform".
This is Joe Biden's America
Nothing will fundamentally change we can believe in
I meant more the crime bill in the 90s but that too
Stuff not changing includes all the accomplishments of his entire horrific career. Didn't he also claim credit for drafting the Patriot Act?
"TOUGH ON CRIME" is a magic phrase that is just about guaranteed to get a politician elected over one that doesn't say the magic phrase.