almost impossible for many Americans not to feel like their government is targeting them
GOP never fails to exploit a tragedy to further their ideological crusade. Always fear the big bad government. Never mind that a competent government, in the form of the Highway Patrol, diffused the situation.
It’s not government people should be wary of, but rather incompetent government run by people who hate government.
No, he’s actually saying the precise opposite. Read carefully. Even though Erickson normally talks nonsense, in this case he doesn’t.
I wonder if Erickson read this article in The Onion - thus proving how good satire works:
-Experts: Ebola Vaccine At Least 50 White People Away-
And while his current stance is a good one - it’s a long time coming.
Let’s not be silly and forget that rightwingers have certainly NOT been ‘up in arms’ - let alone expressed any concern whatsoever - over the constant violent overreach and militarization (aka ‘hollywood-ization’) of local police forces like liberals have been for probably the last decade.
His reference to “Homeland Security” is a tell. If it’s the feds, people like him are aghast at any movement - If it’s the city police shooting unarmed people, mentally disabled people, and barking family dogs, or flash grenading babies, raiding the wrong house causing human and property casualties, and pummeling people while sitting on them while shouting ‘quit resisting’… people like Erickson have been nowhere to be found.
So Erickson chooses to equate Homeland Security to a local police department. Way to slap GWB in the face!
Yeah but that’s a girl. And she was probably dressed provacatively. Or drinking. Or something.
…it’s gone right over their white suburban heads.
Thanks for your input.
Erick, your framing is, as usual, insensitive to the reality of the street story, but I agree with the premise.
And that is a first.
Can I get a Yee Haw?
So, how about melting down all that ordnance and turning it into bridge supports and highway repair and infrastructure, and putting unemployed people to work making it happen?
It is one thing to complain about an issue, wholly another to offer creative solutions.
Beating our swords into plowshares, 21st Century style?
If people know how much precious material is in that materiale that can be converted to civilian use, they would be astounded.
Yes, and a lot of people are conflating the two. Such as Eik Erickson citing the death of Michael Brown as a reason to de-militarize the police.
Historically, America doesn’t do the right thing until something starts to affect the upper and upper middle classes. “”
“America always does the right thing, after having tried everything else first.” - Winston Churchill, paraphrased from memory.
Case in point, the Coconut Grove disaster in 1941. The place was frequented by rich kids. It had shoddy wiring. It burned to the ground taking hundreds with it. It was in the news. Soon after safety standards were introduced in state legislatures around the country.
So, in that sense Eric the seditionist is probably right. However, it isn’t a white kid that will shock the nation into do something, its when it happens to rich kids that we finally do something.
Every 2 or 3 months, Erickson says something that (at least mostly) makes sense, where he isn’t being a complete asshole. I feel dirty agreeing with him.
NONE of these bigots care about African-Americans so phuck them
This argument strikes me as oddly phrased. “we should not need to have a young white man shot and killed for the rest of the nation to pay attention to the issue.”
It seems as if he’s saying we should fix this now while it’s only a problem for colored folks. Heaven forefend what’s been happening to black men should be visited on us.
It’s tone deaf in a way that the GOP just can’t hear.
Erickson’s statement reminds us that even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Of course we shouldn’t need a dead white kid. All it should take is a tax-dodging sovereign citizen rancher in Nevada.
Hey Eric, how about a dead BLM official (assuming they were white of course)? Would that worry you?
What an ignorant bigot! Yeah whites in America have the exact same history- whites were bound in slavery, they faced the exact type of discrimination the same way through out our history. What a slime.
Since when has the Right been concerned with militarization and police overreach? He claims they have been for some time. I don’t see it, other than outliers like Rand Paul (maybe).
For half a second I felt dirty for agreeing with this porcine sack of shit.
Then I read the article and realized it was basically the right wingers being victims. Again.
Yawn.
No, lets give credit where credit is due; he has been raising the issue of police militarization for a long time. He is not demeaning the death of a young black man, he is saying how many young black men have to die before we take this seriously – or will we only do so when a young white man is killed? I despise Erickson and most everything he stands for, but I also despise those on the left so consumed with their own righteousness that they cannot even hear when someone on the right is making sense. Learn to read, follow what is actually said, or STFU.