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2014-09-21 Home Front: Culture Wars

NYT's David Brooks wants concentration camps for the Hoi Poloi

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Posted by badanov 2014-09-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 ~~In the afternoons, they'd play sports, take hikes and build something complicated together~~.

Set up a security perimeter. Enforce noise and light discipline. Clean weapons, cross-level ammo, redistribute food, care for the wounded, children, and elderly. Continue to move away from population centers and low lying areas.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-21 02:09|| 2014-09-21 02:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Whoa whoa whoa is Brooks suggesting non like mined people gather together? But how will the IRS and Big GIVERnment be able to know who the bad guys are? Let me guess the two like mined people who will pay for the forced friendship building: taxpayer via big GIVERnment and the Hoi Poloi.

I will agree on one point. The wealthy upper class cronies and the lower class living off the GIVERnment do have a vested interested to get to know each other.

Posted by Airandee 2014-09-21 08:40|| 2014-09-21 08:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Things are different when one is twelve

Sorry TW this doesn't apply to this regime or any of their sycophants and tools.

I've got 3 words for this idiot..."Church Bowling Leagues".

Posted by AlanC 2014-09-21 08:48|| 2014-09-21 08:48|| Front Page Top

#4 from the same tool that thinks good leadership comes from sharply creased pants

Posted by Frank G 2014-09-21 08:50|| 2014-09-21 08:50|| Front Page Top

#5 You want to mingle? Cut all the power lines into your major urban areas, blow the Interstate and rail bridges leading into the same areas (see - Katrina). In a couple of days, you'll have a lot of mingling.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-09-21 09:20|| 2014-09-21 09:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Sounds like boot camp for Obama's civilian army.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-09-21 09:39|| 2014-09-21 09:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Cool - a multifisk! LOL - pigpile!

Posted by KBK 2014-09-21 10:08|| 2014-09-21 10:08|| Front Page Top

#8 He calls for conscription?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-09-21 10:53|| 2014-09-21 10:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Every Wednesday night at our church we sponsor a 'free' dinner to any and all. The rich and poor, homed and homeless, rub elbows and break bread together. David should join a church. In fact, the Hoi Polloi in Washington should all join a church.

Posted by Total War 2014-09-21 11:50|| 2014-09-21 11:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Friendships. MEH! They're so 1960ish!

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2014-09-21 12:08|| 2014-09-21 12:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Rather ironic, considering that most of Mr. Brooks' denizens at the NYT had an active role in demolishing society (then assisting in replacing those demolished social mores with laws - but I digress.) The same NYTers, by the way, who now either live in gated communities outside NYC, or in condos with doormen and security systems.

Posted by Pappy 2014-09-21 12:42|| 2014-09-21 12:42|| Front Page Top

#12 You also probably want to give them challenging activities to do together...You also want to give them moments when they can share confidences, about big ideas and small worries.

I go to a place like this. It's called "work".

Posted by Angie Schultz 2014-09-21 17:47|| 2014-09-21 17:47|| Front Page Top

#13 Angie, the only people Brooks sees at work are exactly like him. They're all out of the office by the time the cleaning crew is allowed in.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-09-21 19:03|| 2014-09-21 19:03|| Front Page Top

#14 If the NYT's editorial staff, including Brooks, hadn't made a decades-long career out of calling for dictatorship in the US, it would be particularly revealing that their token "conservative" is calling for government regulation of our social lives.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-09-21 19:35|| 2014-09-21 19:35|| Front Page Top

#15 Transporting the participants to the camps in railroad freight cars would help bring people together, too! We could call them re-education camps because everyone would learn so much fun, new stuff. I hear the self-criticism sessions will be killer.

Paging Naftali Frenkel. Mr Frenkel please pick up the white courtesy phone.

Posted by 11A5S 2014-09-21 20:13|| 2014-09-21 20:13|| Front Page Top

#16 Hello, Muddah! Hello, Fadduh!
Here I am at Camp Nirvana.

Posted by Anice Nim 2014-09-21 21:29|| 2014-09-21 21:29|| Front Page Top

#17 Perhaps I am misinformed, it was my impression that the Jewish famlies from NYC vacationed in the Catskills and the Christian families from NYC in the Adirondacks. Well, decades ago, anyhow.

Posted by TopRev 2014-09-21 22:37|| 2014-09-21 22:37|| Front Page Top

#18 He'd hobnob, if he had his druthers,
With rednecks and wetbacks and... others.
Upon his recovery,
He'd share his discovery,
"Oh mumsy, all men are Brooks' brothers!"

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-21 23:36|| 2014-09-21 23:36|| Front Page Top

#19 I worry lest Brooks' concentration
On camps doesn't spur conversation:
"Though it's clear you're sincere,
Still I fear we have here
A failure of communication!"

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-21 23:54|| 2014-09-21 23:54|| Front Page Top

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