It was the senseless wicked shooting at the Minneapolis church the other day that finally made me decide that mental illness had become such a malevolent and pernicious evil  in American society that vast new unprecedented measures had to be taken at once to build up a mental health system as pervasive and powerful as the one for physical health.

Mental illness lies behind school  shootings, domestic violence,  opioid addictions, homeless camps, most suicides (especially among youths), Covid-tri...