A Post-Truth Candidate: Salazar’s Shady Campaign
Congrats to Julia Salazar for winning her primary (“Lying and Assault,” Sept. 15).
If you lie on an application for a government position, you’re usually disqualified. If you’re hired, and it’s discovered you had lied on your application, you’re almost certainly fired.
Yet politicians can lie all the time to everyone, even when they are running for a government position. I guess it must be a prerequisite. I can’t wait for more of Salazar’s, um, promises. Ronald Peragine Queens
As a John F. Kennedy Democrat and Korean War veteran who registered as a Conservative when I moved to Long Island, I’m not surprised that socialist Democrats, with the help of the Working Families Party, have taken control of the Democratic Party.
With most of the media referring to these socialist Democrats as “progressives” and ignoring the swamp on Wall Street, whose corrupt denizens contribute to both major parties, I fear the freedoms past generations fought and died for will die with my generation, too. Jack Coughlin Deer Park
Salazar’s lies about being an immigrant, being poor, her true religion and her non-graduation from Columbia might make her an even bigger liar than Lyin’ Ted Cruz and President Trump combined.
And yet the voters who elected her, despite knowing about her bra- zen dishonesty, may be even more incomprehensible than she is.
To paraphrase H.L. Mencken: Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste or the intelligence of the American voters. Richard Siegelman Plainview
I have been saying this for years, and I am glad The Post is finally saying it, too: Who elects or reelects criminals and people who lie? Only the “informed” in New York. Rob Spieler Montrose
There is no excuse for lying, especially the lies told by Salazar (“Generation of Liars: Julia Salazar & Us,” Eve Fairbanks, PostOpinion, Sept. 17).
Is this the type of person we want making decisions that can affect all of us? It seems like it does more harm than good to excuse this behavior. Gary Gidlow Manhattan