David Brooks — you remember him, the guy who voted for Obama because of the fabulous crease in his pants — wishes someone would spend half a billion dollars building summer camps for middle-aged men… so he could make some friends.
I envision a string of adult camps or retreat centers (my oldest friendships were formed at summer camp, so I think in those terms). Groups of 20 or 30 would be brought together from all social and demographic groups, and secluded for two weeks. They’d prepare and clean up all their meals together, and eating the meals would go on for a while. In the morning, they would read about and discuss big topics. In the afternoons, they’d play sports, take hikes and build something complicated together. At night, there’d be a bar and music.
Something tells me that progressives spend a lot of time fantasizing about building camps to send people to.
Reads like 1930s Nazi propaganda; Kraft durch Freude
Brooks is not a liberal by any remote stretch of the imagination.
The premise of your entire post, therefore, is null and void.
The thing about liberals wanting to send people to camps, though. Why do wingnuts think we care about them enough to want to send them anywhere? As I’ve always said about the fight for LGBT equality, once it’s won, far from the fever dreams religious conservatives are concocting, I imagine the majority of Americans who support LGBT people will mostly ignore the anti-gay population. We don’t like them. They’ll still have all their freedoms, including the one to be as ignorant as humanly possible, but otherwise they’ll be pretty much irrelevant to American society.
Brooks is not a liberal by any remote stretch of the imagination.
Brooks voted for Obama twice. Brooks supports tax increases and gun control. Brooks supported Obama releasing five Taliban generals in exchange for an American deserter. Brooks openly admires both Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. He is pro-abortion with few exceptions, and he supports a broad amnesty for illegal immigrants. [It took about three minutes in Google to uncover his liberal positions, but apparently Evan couldn’t be bothered.]
It takes no stretching of anything to conclude the man is a liberal.
As for people who oppose gay marriage retaining their freedoms, tell that to the bakers, the photographers, and the florists who don’t want to be forced to participate in gay weddings.
Of course, in Evan’s cramped worldview, there are no considerations of importance outside gay people’s feelings. Economic decline? Advancing tyranny? Who cares? It’s all far less important than gay people getting a piece of paper from a bureaucracy that somehow legitimizes their relationships in a way that love and commitment do not.
Because, Evan, you and your fellow Obama bigots have called for conservatives and their families to be murdered – repeatedly.
That makes the point clear. Bigots like you are incapable of coexisting with anyone who disagrees with you and will seek to kill them at every opportunity.
There is a thing called United States military boot camp that has all of the things Mr. Brooks wants. Don’t suppose he will be an listing anytime soon…
OMG, this man is the “conservative” at the NYT. Well, he is a moderate liberal, which is right wing for the Communist newspaper. I would use it for a bird’s poop.
The liberal, Brooks; is clearly anal retentive, in need of a hit upside of the head & a major metrosexual. This is hilarious!
I’m wondering why he can’t just join a club or consult a travel coordinator. His precious daydream exists in many forms.
Anyone that doesn’t think he’s a liberal is either far Left or completely ignorant of Brooks’ record.
Sounds like he wants to go to one of the gay outdoor camps. He wants 20-30 guys, I thought eightsomes where slutty. Leftist gays don’t want to be ignored by people they don’t agree with as that’s their prime attention wh0re feed.
Says he wants all social and demographic groups but lives in gated community that lacks die verse city with armed guards at the gate.
Evan is fine with Muslims refusing service to veterans/military but let x-tians not make him a gay alimony cake.
I did that Mr. brooks- had fun and learned a lot.
It was called the US naval SeaBees.
He could have joined the military. Boot camp has most of the qualities he was looking for. Although, I don’t think it was exactly what he was looking for.