Our economic system is broken. So many people are unhoused that laws become unenforceable. So I think driven by Michael Shellenberger, Gavin Newsom and Darrell Steinberg are trying to set up psychiatric internment to back up police, courts, and jails.
Remember Steinberg put his 13yo daughter into the psychiatric system. Steinberg says of the shelters he wants to set up, “There is a legal obligation to use it, and the government has a legal obligation to provide treatment.” And this means "mental health" treatment.
So with psychiatric interment most people know that their lives depend on being able to resist, and by any means necessary.
If instead they had Universal Basic Income and a Strong Public Housing Offering, the vast majority of people would voluntarily partake. And it would not be just the unhoused, it would be most people who are not super rich.
But Newsom and Steinberg are not progressives, they are neo-liberals. And this later is a repackaging of fascism. They don't want to make real economic changes, but they are willing to spend some serious money if they can make scapegoats out of some people who don't seem to fit in.
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