Images out of New York City this week have gone viral, and they are doing more to project the city’s 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 city’s 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 city’s 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.
Hellbound and Down 