It’s funny how phrases can suddenly enter the lexicon. A new brand new entry is “normal tourist visit.”
In particular, last week U.S. Representative Andrew S. Clyde (R-Ga.) compared the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol building to a “normal tourist visit.” This might seem surprising, coming from somebody who spent several hours that day helping to barricade the door against those same “tourists”.
But suppose we go with this a moment, and give the man the benefit of the doubt. What if Rep. Clyde really believes that an angry mob smashing down doors, injuring many people, and causing extreme panic and mayhem is a “normal tourist visit?”
Does that mean he would welcome such a visit into his house in Jackson County, Georgia? Is anything at all those tourists might do within his home that he would not consider proper?
If somebody asked him that, I wonder what he would say.
Desperate people do desperate things. Didn’t someone say, “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself?” I’m tempted to think the root problem is the “self chatter of fear” occupying minds on both sides of this “great polarization”.
Guaranteed Income could go a long ways towards dissolving the “fear” inhabiting many minds today. My hope would be Republicans could get behind it as well, the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend was created by a Republican.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/05/07/1024674/ubi-guaranteed-income-pandemic/