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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/same-sex-marriage-makes-david-brooks-crazy-20130402##snip##
Brooks: 'Marriage is one of those institutions along with religion and military service that restricts freedom. Marriage is about making a commitment that binds you for decades to come. It narrows your options on how you will spend your time, money and attention.'
"Gee really? Boy, those gays and lesbians are sure going to be in for a shock when they find out that being in a committed relationship involves constraints on behavior. That'll be some unpleasant new ground they'll be breaking there.
What an asshole!"
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Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)He's as good on Brooks as he is on the banks.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)No shit.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)He seems to live in his own little "Brooks world" where everything is related to something he wants to bellyache about in some way, no matter how inconsequential and downright odd. I suppose he thinks that makes him a "great thinker." But Taibbi nails him perfectly...
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)after I read the above quote from Brooks was a question:
Are you unhappily married? "...binds you for decades" That doesn't sound like a happily married person's observation of marriage to me.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Taibbi, not brooks
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)seconds what is making him "crazy".
It's that the issue is driving another giant fucking fault line in the GOP between the fundy nutbars that power the base and the people who want to win elections, it is contributing to the inevitable demographic doom of the party, and as such causing any chance of one Mr. David Brooks to see a permanent Cap Gains cut in his lifetime, to dwindle down to little or nothing.
THAT is what is making him crazy, but he's not gonna come out and say it, so instead you get this headache-inducing blather that makes ZERO sense.