The fix is in, the conspiracy of progressive left-wingers to coerce public policy.  For example, the homeless issue and mass killings can be directly linked to the implementation of radical theories by the mental health community.  In the 1950s, British psychiatrist R.D. Laing came up with the zany theory that schizophrenics are not only as smart as their doctors, but in touch with the inner reality of existence.

In the 1960s, Ken Kesey's book, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, based on Laing's teachings, was a bestseller.  The film that followed was a huge hit, popularizing even wider the hidden agenda radicals had pursued from Laing's theories: the mentally ill have been mistreated – and worse, their "human rights" have been  violated by keeping them confined in institutions.

By the early 1970s, "deinstitutionalization" – freeing the mentally ill – was the credo in the mental health community.  By the late 1970s and early 1980s, Americans were stunned to find their communities inundated with vagrants.  The media labeled the "homeless" and told the public the phenomenon was caused by the economic policies of Ronald Reagan.

Cities were left to fix the problem.  However, officials discovered they could not arrest the "street people" who panhandled and accosted pedestrians.  The loitering and vagrancy statutes had been stricken from the books by the efforts of sympathetic left-wing attorneys.

In the mid-1990s, UNC-Chapel Hill law student Wendell Williamson went on a shooting spree, killing two.  He was found not guilty for reasons of insanity and confined in a mental facility.  Williamson made national headlines for suing his psychiatrist, claiming he was misdiagnosed, and actually won.  Later, the decision was overturned by the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

Williamson's crime seems paltry compared to the large number of deaths today caused by mass murderers.  But he is the only one to write a book about his life as a schizophrenic, an eerie, surreal look inside the mind of one.  Jumping off the pages are conspiracy theories, internal voices, and calls to action attributable to nearly all of the mass killers today.  Only recently has mental illness been given co-billing with gun control remonstrations in post-massacre efforts to explain how these things can happen – such as the loss of 294 lives only this year – up to now.

Wake up, everybody!  The radical progressives have a lot to answer for, especially their cabal of left-wing psychiatrists, lawyers, and media, who infected society with the homeless and mass murderers.  For too long, the rest of us have been duped, and left holding the bag for the horrible unintended consequences of their faulty theories – and their and inexcusable self-righteousness.

 (The author was the first to connect the homeless issue and mass murders with actions by radicals in the psychiatric, legal, and media professions.  His most recent post on the subject for American Thinker can be accessed here.)