Erick Erickson describes his harrowing health scares and the threats from Trump people

[Fast Walker 52]

http://theresurgent.com/if-i-die-before-you-wake/

Holy crap. Poor guy. Seriously. He was a jerk in the past, but at least he disavowed Trump this cycle, and his life seems positively scary now.

This has been a year. It started with angry Trump supporters showing up at our home and at my office. It continued with angry people harassing my advertisers and station. And while the professional toll has been something to behold, it is nothing compared to the personal struggles my wife and I have had to deal with this year and will now continue to deal with.

For the first time we have had to actually dwell on the possibility that we could leave our children in the world without us long before any parent should have to depart. Between the weight of this political season and the struggles of health, I have spent a lot of time thinking. If my wife and I were to die, what would we want our children to know. What would we leave them with? And honestly, it is hard to separate the struggles of this year from each other. It envelops my thinking.

First, of course, I hope my children know I love them and want to keep them safe. More than once in the past few months my seven year old has asked why people hate us and hate me. The conversations at school turn to what parents talk about and I know I am not popular with more than one parent at my kids’ school. The other night, after the fall out from the latest Trump scandal, he came downstairs in the middle of the night worried that the Trump supporters were going to come back. He and his sister have already been yelled at in the store for my opposition to Trump.

I want them to know how much their mother and I love them. I want them to know that we stand in their room, in the shadows at night, just to watch them sleep. We steal glances and store them in the battle against time and age. We remember those things they will never have memory of about their lives.

[SunSeeker]

1. Their poor kids...

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. Hopefully he's not the same person described below anymore.....

http://www.businessinsider.com/erick-erickson-shows-the-worst-in-gop-2013-6

http://thedailybanter.com/2014/04/erick-erickson-on-hillary-clinton/

http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/01/29/a-look-back-erick-ericksons-history-of-inflamma/192433

Sure, these people seem far worse and have taken things further than he would've. But this shit started waaaaay before Drumpf.

[msanthrope]

26. That's him. nt

[brucefan]

3. Lie down with dogs

Wake up with fleas

[rurallib]

4. I am sorry, but I am having trouble screwing up a lot of sympathy for Erikson

Honestly, I do not know a lot about him. I think he has or had a stint on Fox and started Red States. I have heard him on a couple of radio shows (NPR no less) and he came across to me at that time as extremely right wing with a real screw 'em attitude for anyone who needed help. Maybe I have him mixed up with someone else.

This feels like another of the hardcore right that get a scare and this changes their perspective. For me, I really have a hard time accepting these come to reason stories as much more than anothe 'me first' Republican once again thinking of themselves first (I nearly died, I'll be better).

So sorry to hear about his problems. Americans of all stripes have serious problems daily. Yet so many do still not have access to the medical or financial help they need. The lack of access which I am guessing he championed in his healthy days.

No I do not wish him ill. I do not wish anyone ill. What I do wish is that people like him develop some empathy and critical thinking when it can do some good.

I will probably get flamed for this. So be it

[Glitterati]

5. You've got it exactly right

This guy is a complete jerk. He has called all Democrats, including Obama, Hillary, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and all the rest the most foul of names and racist garbage.

Erick Erickson deserves absolutely no concern from ANY Democrat. What he suffers now is what he created and made for himself. He WAS the Tea Party in Georgia. He IS a complete and utter Republican in the mode of Rush Limbaugh and Neal Boortz (who he substitues for REGULARLY).

No, sorry, no sympathy from this Democrat for the likes of Erick Erickson. He does NOT deserve it.

Erick Erickson is simply reaping that which he has sown.

[gratuitous]

12. Yeah, sorry Erick (son of Erick) Erickson's son wonders why Daddy is so despised

The only honest answer Erick can give his son is, "Well, Daddy has put out a lot of hatred and venom in his career particularly toward people who are less fortunate, and some of it is coming back to him. In short, it's Daddy's own fault."

If Erickson hadn't been told for years that he was on a hateful and self-destructive path, there might be some residual sympathy for him after I got done caring about the poor people in Haiti or North Carolina after Hurricane Matthew. As it is, Erickson's on his own for this self-inflicted misfortune.

[enid602]

36. evangelical

Lioks like he's reaping what he sows.

[Nevernose]

38. Governor Wallace ended up a civil rights proponent

Maybe this will be the catalyst for self reflection.

[rurallib]

40. Sadly, that too was only after a catastrophic life changing event

that IIRC left Wallace dependent on a black man for living.

I am glad he came around and tried to undo some of his damage but

is that what it will take for each and every far righty to come around? A near wipeout from violence or disease. Sure don't want to see that. Or have a family situation on one issue that makes them sympathetic to that issue like the Cheneys

[Nevernose]

41. I think a lack of empathy is the impetus for much conservatism

I think that, for many people, empathy with someone or something with which they are not familiar is difficult, and is more difficult with some than with others.

That's one reason cities tend to be more liberal: because people who might otherwise have been conservative personally know gay people, or black people, or whatever kind of people. They know them well and frequently encounter them.

Then there's people like Cliven Bundy, who talks about the black people he sees on his drive through the poor neighborhoods into town, and probably hasn't had a lengthy conversation with a black person in his entire 75 year life.

There was a study done in Germany a few years ago that I've always remembered. Basically, they laid the map of hate crimes and extremist groups down over a map of Germany. The result? The vast majority have f them were in the former East Germany, which had virtually no multiculturalism until the wall came down. They were more likely to be racist -- and Western Germans less so -- because of the amount of contact. (And note that I use words like "tend to" and "more," because there are good and bad people in any group in any location)

[rurallib]

44. Well stated.

[procon]

6. What stood out in his essay:

" I never even thought about the consequences. It was just the right thing to do and I did it. Only after I did it did the worry start."

I think that shortsightedness applies to most rightwing folks. Certainly the Republicans in my own family are prone to being more reactionary rather that thoughtful. Like children, they only see the instant gratification of all their biases in Trump's campaign, they live for the ultimate fantasy game where there is no worries about consequences.

[Glitterati]

7. You really expect me to feel sympathy for THIS kind of monster?

Fox News contributor Erick Erickson went one step further, saying nature itself commanded that women be subservient to men.

“I’m so used to liberals telling conservatives that they’re anti-science,” Erickson explained. “But liberals who defend this and say it is not a bad thing are very anti-science. When you look at biology, when you look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society and in other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it’s not antithesis, or it’s not competing, it’s a complimentary role.”

“We as people in a smart society have lost the ability to have complimentary relationships in nuclear families, and it is tearing us apart,” he continued, adding that “reality showed” it was harmful for women to be the primary source of income in a family.

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Or THIS Erick Erickson:
Shortly after the Texas Senate passed legislation that drastically restricts abortion rights in that state, Fox News contributor Erick Erickson urged liberals to bookmark a website that sells coat hangers.

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Not.

[Ilsa]

29. He doesn't give humans the credit we deserve

to rise above what animals do by biology and instinct, and instead, act to create the world we wish to live in, not one driven solely by instinct.

[kwolf68]

37. Except he is WRONG

The animal kingdom has a TON of examples of various different kind of social stratas within certain organism groups. Look to bees, orcas or Lions as examples where women run the show.

Sorta related, monogamy (I assume Ericksons system of choice) as well as polygyny and polyandry are examples of mating systems in nature.

The reason various animals use certain mating OR social systems in their organization is because they EVOLVED that way. Natural selection CHOSE these mating or social systems for these animals under their particular environmental pressures.

The big difference NOW as it pertains to human males versus human females is we have -among other things- A CHOICE how to treat women and WOMEN have a choice in which role they'd like to participate in.

Fuck this guy for polluting my discipline with his misogynistic screed.

BTW asshole, there are KNOWN examples of HOMOSEXUALITY in nature. Care to expand on your views there?

[Ilsa]

39. I'm counting on that last line applying to EE...

But yes, I know that nature has variety that ignorant people like Erikson don't want to know about or certainly don't want to admit is real.

My objective was to play to his errant assumption of a lack of choice about our lives, and destroy it from within.

[leftynyc]

8. Isn't this guy the cretin

who called Justice Souter a goatfucker? You'll have to excuse me for not being able to work up much sympathy now that the dogs he lays with have given him fleas.

[Glitterati]

9. It is. Yes, it certainly is.

And, that was one of his "nicer" little comments.

And, he wants sympathy because the army of bigots, racists, misogynists he created and encouraged have now turned on HIM?

I'm having one of those wonderful "karma will bite you in the ass eventually" moments.

[leftynyc]

10. Me too

Unless I see him take some responsibility for the rabid dogs he helped create, not interested in his petty problems.

[Volaris]

15. Even then, his attitude likely will be

Hey, thanks for saving me from that pack of rabid dogs that i created that got loose, I appreciate it...I needed saving you see so I can go ahead and start injecting new dogs with anthrax.

Unless he's going to back publicly-funded elections, universal healthcare and college, wage increases and useful gun control, he can flat go fuck himself. He made his own problem here.
So much for the Party of Personal Responsibility.

[leftynyc]

18. It would have to be

genuine contrition - something along the lines of being thoroughly irresponsible and inhuman in his attitude and he'll spend the rest of his miserable life trying to make up for it.

[Volaris]

30. That's right.

We're talking Augustinian-levels of 'jeezus what an asshole I was...'

Any less and it will be for advertising dollars

[Fast Walker 52]

21. yeah, it's him... I agree you don't have to give him THAT much sympathy

But still, interesting to see the backlash against him

[leftynyc]

22. I guess interesting

in that watching insects or pirannas can be interesting. Until he admits he helped create these animals, I'm not interested.

[NightWatcher]

11. You built this monster Dr Frankenshit, now he's smashing everything

My pity will go elsewhere.

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. People attacking his family are deplorable

[gratuitous]

14. No argument from me

Although we only have Erickson's word for that, and I don't really have a good basis for trusting him.

[Fast Walker 52]

19. knowing what we know about Trumpsters, I believe it

[Glitterati]

16. As deplorable as the ones HE CREATED who attacked my kid on the school bus

over my Obama sign in the yard.

Or that parent who told me he'd supply the gun if at my meeting with Cynthia McKinney, I would shoot her.

Sorry, NO. He created these monsters and I have no sympathy for him or his children.

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. That's too bad

Sympathy is a virtue. It sounds like both he and his wife are very ill, and he has small children. My own son is seven like his; I can process it, regardless of our disagreements.

[Fast Walker 52]

20. well, if we show some human decency (even if he hasn't shown it before), maybe he will rethink his

previous positions.

[Glitterati]

32. Oh, now THAT'S funny!

Like liberals have never shown this asshole any human decency?

Right............

[Fast Walker 52]

33. huh? I don't follow.

[JustAnotherGen]

27. +1

Being mean to a 7 year old? That's not right.

[Delmette]

23. Rec'ed for all the comments. Thanks DU! nt

[Cakes488]

24. You reap what you sow

[boston bean]

25. Is he going to apologize to everyone he was rotten to?

[msanthrope]

28. Atwater, Redux. nt

[rurallib]

34. My very first thought

[JHB]

31. Easy cure, Eric: shut up and go away

I hope you and your family stay safe, but the people who are threatening you are the same rabid pack that you made a career of bringing to full foam.

Go find a new career that has nvolves working something other than your yap. Get out of the opinion business, and anything related to it: no lobbying, no pr, no advertising, no agent for anyone else, nada. Go learn how to make pizzas and open a shop.

Better yet, buy a taco truck and find a spot.

[lillypaddle]

35. Simply put

You reap what you sow.

Sorry for your children.

[Warren DeMontague]

42. if you plant ice, you gonna harvest wind

maybe he should look across the aisle at all us satanic unbelievers and fornicators and sodomites and birth control advocates and figure out that we're actually, en masse, nicer people.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

43. With apologies to Martin Niemoller

When they came for African Americans, I said nothing (in fact I joined in) because I was a racist asshole.

When they came for gays, I said nothing (in fact I joined in) because I was a homophobic asshole.

When they came for women, I said nothing (in fact I joined in) because I was a mysogynistic asshole.

When they came for Muslims, I said nothing (in fact I joined in) because I was a hateful bigot.

When they came for me, nobody gave a shit.

Fuck off Erickson

[bluestateguy]

45. Ben Shapiro is inundated with anti-Semitic tweets and threats every day

EE isn't the only one.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

46. Dammit, now I have to feel bad for Erick Erickson.

During the course of this campaign, Donald Trump has made me feel bad for people I never thought I'd feel bad for--Ben Shapiro, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush (who I detested).

That's how awful Donald Trump and his not-so-merry band of Deplorables are.

[LeftInTX]

47. The whole RedState gang is anti-Trump

They are all pro-Cruz

They know that Trump is gonna lose, so they don't feel they need to tow the party line.

[UTUSN]

48. R#17 & K for, Wow/DRUMPF has put the fear of Zeus into him n/t

[JI7]

49. i hope he regrets the nastiness he spread himself. and i hope his kids don't lose their parents

at an early age.