Reader Paul Edwards, on today’s Mamdani/Platner piece:
Are you a card-carrying Exceptionalist, Matt, that you believe this Capitalist whorehouse of a country to be the most benign system for its citizens? Do you really believe the vitriol you pour on Marxism and its tenets and how terrible its effects have been in the world, never mind that it has never once been implemented anywhere. Do you believe America has been a great force for good in the world? If so, where?
Let’s see:
- defeating the Nazis and Imperial Japan,
- accepting more refugees from Nazi Germany than any other country,
- inventing polio vaccine,
- chemotherapy,
- the Internet,
- nuclear power,
- cars,
- airplanes,
- movies,
- TV,
- the transistor,
- the pill...
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