The line about “insanity” being defined as doing the same things over and over, and expecting a different result, is sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein.
An online search indicates the saying more likely originated in a Narcotics Anonymous publication many years ago about the difficulty of overcoming a drug addiction.
If so, insanity is an appropriate word for how Seattle and King County are responding to their part of the homelessness crisis in our state, seeing how they have downplayed the role of drug addiction and behavioral health in creating this situation…