Cut the Lifeline, Then Blame the Drowning
They’re not fixing anything. They’re making it easier to disappear.
🧠 The Gist
The Trump administration’s latest executive order allows states to forcibly institutionalize people with mental illness or addiction—even if they haven’t committed a crime. At the same time, it pushes deep cuts to Medicaid, the primary way millions of low-income Americans access mental health care.
This isn’t about offering help—it’s about removing people from sight.
They’re calling it “compassion.”
But it looks a lot more like containment.
“War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.”
— Inscription on the Ministry of Truth, Orwell’s 1984
Today we could add a fourth:
“Compassion is Confinement.”
That’s the quiet slogan behind the Trump administration’s new executive order on “Ending Crime and Disorder.” On paper, it says help. In practice, it means removal—locking people up for being sick, poor, or visibly struggling.
👉 This isn’t a safety net—it’s a snare.
What They’re Doing
Giving states the green light to institutionalize people for mental illness or addiction—even without a criminal charge.
Encouraging crackdowns on sleeping outside, loitering, or being visibly unwell.
Tying federal money to how quickly cities can “clean up” the streets.
They call it humane.
They call it compassionate.
But we know what this is.
Cut the Lifeline
At the same time, they’re gutting Medicaid—the actual system that provides treatment, therapy, addiction support, and housing resources.
So the playbook goes like this:
Defund real care.
Criminalize the fallout.
Institutionalize those who can’t comply.
Call it compassion.
They’re not offering a solution.
They’re building a trap.
Vets Know the Pattern
This isn’t theory—it’s familiar.
We’ve watched what happens when the government pretends to help by cutting the things that keep us alive.
PTSD? Lock them up.
Homelessness? Sweep it away.
Addiction? Confine it.
All while the clinics close, the outreach dries up, and “voluntary” care becomes a ghost.
They don’t want healing.
They want the problem out of sight.
This Isn’t Help. It’s Disappearance.
No due process. No charge. No consent.
They call it “civil commitment.”
But it’s just incarceration with better branding.
This is the Ministry of Truth version of mental health care:
What’s real is erased. What’s wrong is renamed.
And what’s humane?
Is whatever gets people off the street.
Bottom Line
You don’t heal trauma with handcuffs.
You don’t fix poverty with force.
And you don’t get to call it compassion when you’re the one cutting the rope.
This is not reform.
It’s punishment, rebranded.
And it’s already happening.
🛡 If you’ve survived the system, speak up.
If you haven’t—listen to the ones who have.