A Push for Big Government: Democrats’ Socialist Surge
THE ISSUE: Karol Markowicz’s column on how the Democrats are trying to rebrand socialism.
Is it any wonder young voters are identifying as democratic socialists (“Fake ‘Answer,’ ” Karol Markowicz, PostOpinion, Aug. 6)?
Look at their leaders: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic candidate for Congress, was raised and educated in a wealthy Westchester suburb.
Sen. Bernie Sanders owns three homes, and he reported an income last year in excess of $1 million.
And Cynthia Nixon, Democratic candidate for governor, owns a $3.25 million Manhattan apartment and last year filed a tax return reporting over $1 million in income. Great examples all of socialism for thee, but not for me.
Carole Campolo
East Hampton
Markowicz equates social democracy, which is what Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez advocate, with communism, but they’re totally different.
Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders support the same sensible social and economic policies that have enabled Scandinavian countries to become the most advanced and prosperous nations in the world, such as affordable college education and universal health care. These steps are entirely feasible in America.
Robert Berger
New Rochelle
Democrats are embracing the nonsensical philosophy of this socialist from The Bronx, OcasioCortez. But how are these socialist programs to be paid for?
Experts say such pie-inthe-sky programs as Medicare-for-All would cost $32 trillion over the next 10 years. To finance this, the top marginal tax rates could approach 70 percent. In this context, socialist, harebrained schemes do nothing for this nation.
Earl Beal
Terre Haute, Ind.
University professors taught me that “rugged individualism” is a thing of the past and that socialism is the future.
Those who long for government dependency know they are incapable of responsible living without a nanny to guide them. They give their votes to the liar who’s offering the best promises of free stuff.
P. Seal Pearl River, La.
Ocasio-Cortez is probably laughing because she didn’t expect to be thrown into the spotlight and idolized as the new face of the Democratic Party and even as the female Barack Obama.
No doubt she’s wondering how people could be gullible enough to swallow what she’s selling, when she doesn’t know what she’s even babbling about.
JJ Cravatto
Ramsey, NJ