Over the weekend....I noted that co-host of The View....Sunny Hostin...got hyped-up and uttered that she does NOT feel safe in a neighborhood....if there are American flags on display.
I sat and pondered upon it.
Generally....growing up in the 1970s of rural Alabama....there might have been two or three folks out of 300 houses around the farm....where a flag was on display.
The flag-thing....took off in the 1980s...as Wal-Mart arrived, and suddenly you could buy flags (yeah, K-Mart and Piggly-Wiggly never saw this as a 'hot' item).
But this safe and unsafe BS? I can't think of much of a threat from 'flag-houses'.
If you feel this way....wouldn't Easter bunny decorations, or Halloween 'skulls' freak you out? Wouldn't fireworks for the 4th of July freak you just as well?
This leads me to a thought....that probably 25-percent of society is in a permanent fear of something.
They probably don't want to talk about it.....fear of Trump....fear of raccoons....fear of white-women playing basketball....fear of eagles....fear of flying....fear of Covid....fear of rational people.....fear of Fox TV news....fear of Gunsmoke episodes....fear of logical engineers....fear of the Bible....fear of honky-tonk women....fear of people who can't be trans-something....fear of people who seem competent.....fear of fear.
The crazy thing? This is the kind of BS....that in the 1970s/1980s....you would never have brought up to a friend/relative/co-worker. You'd keep this fear-crap internal and avoid admitting it.
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Eugene Oregon.
I visit elderly shut-ins.
One old gal settled nearby after escaping from California.
It gets worse.
Her entire life was in Berkeley, notorious for their goofball politics.
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It gets worse.
She retired from California State University, Berkeley.
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After a few years in Oregon, she decided she needed to get to know her adopted homeland, so she and I joined a bus tour of interesting towns.
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Tucked amongst miles of farms, one town we walked around was rural agricultural Brownsville, population 1,895 decent hardworking folks.
American flags everyplace, the nice people of Brownsville seemed humbled to be part of The Great American Experiment.
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Everybody else in the tour had a wonderful day, but the old girl -- shaking with anger -- was too furious to even speak.
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Months later, she finally calmed enough to discuss her reaction to seeing American flags.
"Republican patriots!", as if that explained everything.
I get into phobia discussions (for some odd reason). There is a phobia over flags....Vexiphobia....irrational fear of flags. Generally, it's ALL flags...not just the US one. Funny how this developed over a 20-year period.
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