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Check the pictures.
YUCK!
"Mounds of Snow and Trash Are Just the Opening Act of MamdaniAs
Collectivist New York"
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"mages out of New York City this week have gone viral, and they are doing
more to project the cityAs future than any campaign speech ever could.
They show piles of trash sitting curbside and piles of snow still frozen nearly two weeks after a storm. They show a city struggling with
completing tasks that should be routine.
This is what New Yorkers are seeing as Mayor Zohran Mamdani begins to
warm his seat in City Hall.
According to WABC-TV in New York, sanitation crews fell behind after
heavy snow and deep cold slowed cleanup efforts across the city. Trash
piled up in multiple neighborhoods.
The mayor defended the cityAs botched response as New Yorkers complained
about living in a landfill.
I am not from New York, I do not want to visit New York, and I am well
aware that New York City has dealt with snowstorms and sanitation
problems long before Mamdani arrived.
I also cannot say with certainty that this entire situation is his fault.
It might be, it might not be.
What I can say with certainty is that this will not be the last time New Yorkers complain about a problem that could have been avoided.
It will not be the last time residents are told to lower their
expectations and accept dysfunction.
The problem is not the snow, but the cityAs Marxist leadership.
Communist and socialist systems tend to fail pretty quickly for many
reasons, but one stands above the rest.
These systems do not value or reward competence. They value and reward
loyalty and ideology.
The experts whose job it is to see problems coming and prevent them are
almost always removed and replaced with apparatchiks who share the
correct political views.
Critical systems are being put to the test and will likely suffer in the
years to come.
Leftist radicals are not known for being the brightest people in the
room, though some are obviously successful in the arts.
I would not want them to be the last line of defense between my children
and a polluted drinking water system.
I would not want them standing between me and the power grid of a nuclear plant.
That is how disasters happen. That is how Chernobyl happened.
I also bring a perspective that many commentators do not.
I grew up in Oklahoma on land later ruled to be part of an Indian
reservation after the Supreme CourtAs decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma. I watched a socialist system operate inside another state, and thatAs
exactly what Indian tribes are.
A new chief gets elected, fires everyone, and installs friends,
relatives, and political allies into tribal jobs they are not qualified
to do. Everyone stays poor except the chief, his inner circle, and those
who work hard in spite of the system.
The process is not unlike the one overseen by corrupt former Democrat New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina
struck the city in 2005.
New York City is already starting to look like that.
When Mamdani took office last month, he vowed, oWe will replace the
frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.o
New York is experiencing the collective part now. The warmth is nowhere
to be found. In fact, the lack of it has proven deadly, as 17 homeless
people have reportedly frozen to death in recent weeks.
The misery is just beginning"
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