America is a very sick society

another movie theater massacre

   I  live in Rhode Island, USA. These mass murder-suicide stories are being reported almost weekly now. The ready availability of guns and widespread mental illness can be easily explained by the decaying capitalist social system.
I am a democratic Socialist yet I had no problem reading John Houser's right wing rants with some sympathy. He is evidently a ruined middle class businessman. Even a severely mentally ill person like Houser can still see social rot clearly - even if he or she is dangerously wrongheaded about the " solution ".
Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats here represent the ruined middle class or the always oppressed and exploited working class-or the truly hopeless poor people.
Clearly, decaying capitalism breeds mental illness and thousands of crackups. But there are no longer any long term mental hospitals here-except for the very rich. Instead we have PRISON-the disgraceful over crowded American Gulag.
America is a very sick society !
  

America is cracking up !

 

   

   The deranged killer Houser ” was nuts so who cares “. Our mental health system stinks. Very few mental health professionals have the backbone to decry that miserable failure called ” de-institutionalization.
Still there is also a political lesson here. In the ruined Germany of the 1920s it was the ruined middle class that was more inclined to Hitler’s Nazism than any other group.
America today is cracking up in more ways than one. American capitalism is as insane as these mass killer-suicides we read about every week now.
I recommend we listen to ” socialist ” Bernie Sanders before other voices -on the far right-grow even louder and more hysterical.