Response to Let Commie Mamdani Take New York City
Dear Mr Schaper-
I was disappointed in the content of the article for a number of reasons.
While I understand the animus that many feel towards NYC and its bizarre politics and politicians, I have to say that you miss the big picture on several levels.
First- anyone- Conservative, Republican, or center, should recognize that Communism is evil. Writing off people to live under its horror is not something that decent and right minded people should do.
Second- NYC is a huge city. For all the blue nonsense, it has a robust Republican community. My neighborhood has a GOP club. The NY State Conservative Party is headquartered not in the suburbs or rural upstate, but in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
Despite blatant gerrymandering, Bay Ridge, the area where I grew up, still manages to have a GOP Congresswoman (Malliotakis). Where I currently live in Queens, we have a GOP rep on City Council (Joanne Ariola) . Other parts of Brooklyn and parts of Queens also keep the fight alive (e.g. Vickie Palladino from north Queens).
Third- the idea that we should "write off NYC so that the madness of the DSA can be brought to light" and/or "use it as an advantage to the Republican cause" is a dangerous gamble. Political winds change. There are people in America who would willingly and or unwittingly accept anything, so long as it sticks it to the President.
I would rather you had written: "I hope that NY comes to its senses. The GOP should find better candidates than Sliwa. As odious as Cuomo is, he's better than a Islamo-Socialist".
Sincerely
-Bart Daudelin
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Mr. Daudelin:
Thank you for reading, and thank you for writing to me.
The fact is that many New Yorkers themselves are writing off New York City in choosing to elect a communist. That is not my fault. That is their choice.
At some point, the people have to suffer the consequences for their choices.
To quote H. L. Mencken: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
I understand the concern that more people may jump on the socialist bandwagon, but that is their fall-out.
As for the Republicans in New York City, I am grateful that they are putting up a fight, but I am disappointed that so many of them don't want to support Curt Sliwa, and some Republican groups are calling on Sliwa to drop out! Sounds like a bunch of RINOs to me, which helps explain New York City's descent into communistic collapse.
Andrew Cuomo is running as a vanity project to remake his image after his tyrannical failure as governor. Remember that it was Cuomo who said conservatives had no place in New York to begin with!
Cuomo should not be anywhere near power. Trump Derangement Syndrome has afflicted the mass of NYC voters, who will vote for a Commie out of spite. That's a shame, but I stand by statement: let them have it.
Thanks again for writing.
Sincerely,
Arthur Christopher Schaper
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