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.
