[hga]

"truly horrendous" was worse than dumping them out on the streets?

I'd say we've "arrived at a solution" since any attempt to limit the "personal autonomy" of the severely mentally ill gets absolutely nowhere, unless of course they end up in jail as they all to often do.

"much changed from the 70s"???

Could you be more specific? Note that I came of age in the '70s so I lived through that and subsequent periods in the evolution of "the right".

Here's one good essay to look at WRT to a thesis it touches upon WRT to three generations of activists on the right (e.g. Buckley/Rush/Drudge): http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/nobody_can_fire_andre...

[barrkel]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment for one.

[hga]

I repeat with emphasis: was the proper solution to dump all the patients in institutions out on the street?

That "solution" does not automatically follow from the study you cited.