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Images pouring out of New York City this week are doing more to forecast the city’s future than any campaign speech ever could. Viral photos show garbage piled curbside for days and snow still frozen in place nearly two weeks after a winter storm — basic municipal failures that once would have been unthinkable in America’s largest city.

This is what New Yorkers are seeing as Zohran Mamdani settles into City Hall.

According to local reporting, sanitation crews fell badly behind after heavy snow and bitter cold slowed cleanup efforts, leaving trash stacked across multiple neighborhoods and sidewalks coated in ice long after the storm passed. What should have been routine instead became a visible symbol of dysfunction.

Welcome to the New Normal

Residents posted images showing trash piled higher than snowbanks, while others mocked what they called “socialist snow plowing,” where snow appeared to be redistributed rather than removed — ensuring everyone endured the same hazardous sidewalks.

The mayor defended the city’s response as frustration grew. And while New York has dealt with storms and sanitation issues long before Mamdani, what matters is not blame for one incident — it’s what comes next.

This will not be the last time New Yorkers are told to lower their expectations.
It will not be the last time preventable problems are reframed as unavoidable realities.

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Ideology Over Competence

The problem is not snow.
The problem is collectivist leadership.

Socialist and Marxist systems fail for many reasons, but one stands above the rest: they do not reward competence. They reward loyalty and ideology.

Experts who prevent problems are replaced by political allies who echo the correct slogans. Critical systems are staffed by apparatchiks instead of professionals. Eventually, the systems break.

You don’t want ideologues managing drinking water.
You don’t want them guarding power grids.
You don’t want them overseeing emergency response.

That is how disasters happen. That is how Chernobyl happened.

A Familiar Pattern

This pattern is not theoretical. It has played out repeatedly — from failed city administrations to corrupt municipal machines like New Orleans under Ray Nagin before Hurricane Katrina.

When Mamdani took office last month, he vowed to replace what he called the “frigidity of rugged individualism” with the “warmth of collectivism.”

New York is now experiencing the collective part.
The warmth is nowhere to be found.

In fact, the absence of it has proven deadly. Reports indicate 17 homeless individuals have frozen to death in recent weeks — a grim outcome in a city that prides itself on compassion rhetoric while failing at basic governance.

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Prophetic Perspective

Scripture warns that societies which reject responsibility, truth, and order eventually reap disorder. Systems built on ideology instead of wisdom cannot sustain themselves, no matter how loudly they promise equity or warmth.

Snow melts. Trash can be cleared.
But a culture that abandons accountability collapses from within.

What New York is experiencing is not an anomaly — it is a preview.

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