OPINION:
Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is a socialist who champions socialist policies but lives and enjoys the comfort of the capitalist lifestyle every day (“Zohran Mamdani blowing away the competition in Democrats’ free-for-all,” Web, July 17).
He claims to want to help working-class people, but his economic ideas sound hypocritical, incoherent and at risk of harming the very individuals he says he wants to aid. He seems to have no grasp on economics at all.
Socialism can easily transition into communism and would be doomed to fail in America. Yet socialists would have you believe that in our country there is inequality and exploitation at the expense of the working class and that all advantages are aimed at a select few. The capitalist will tell you that capitalism is credited with driving economic growth and providing an even playing field for everyone to pursue economic success based on their skills and efforts.
The push away from capitalism is gaining momentum every day, and recent displays of socialistic street vandalism is solid validation of how our country is already being threatened.
We should all be very concerned.
ROBERTA CHALEFF
Tamarac, Florida
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