{"id":555231,"date":"2026-01-31T01:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/555231\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:56:19","slug":"nyc-homeless-freeze-to-death-in-the-icy-grip-of-mamdanis-warmth-of-collectivism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/555231\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC homeless freeze to death in the icy grip of Mamdani’s ‘warmth of collectivism’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brace yourself: This is the editors of the New York Post begging, urging Mayor Zohran Mamdani to live up to his inaugural vow<\/a> to \u201creplace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Specifically, when it comes to the homeless whom he\u2019s decided to let freeze to death.<\/p>\n

Last weekend saw at least 10 New Yorkers<\/a> die in the cold, and temps remain glacial now.<\/p>\n

Yet the mayor\u2019s sticking by his order to cops and other city workers to leave encampments alone<\/a> last weekend and not force the homeless to come in out of the deadly cold.<\/p>\n

The idea is that the city should respect the autonomy of these (highly dysfunctional) individuals \u2014 which sure sounds like an obsessive care for \u201crugged individualism\u201d to us.<\/p>\n

That he himself called that \u201cfrigidity\u201d is all the more damning.<\/p>\n

\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n

Why is the newly prominent Democratic socialist leader embracing a cold, laissez-faire attitude out of a Charles Dickens novel?<\/p>\n

The most his office will do to get people into the collectivist warmth of a homeless shelter is \u201credouble outreach efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOutreach\u201d is a magic word in blue-city social services circles, because the alternative \u2014 compulsory shelter \u2014 is (mysteriously) a big no-no. <\/p>\n

Even when a homeless person is clearly mentally ill,<\/a> the ethic among the provider class is to make contact, extend the offer of help \u2026 and retreat.<\/p>\n

Under Mayor Eric Adams, the city had a policy of \u201cinvoluntary removal\u201d of homeless people with severe mental illness, but Mamdani rejects that approach because it doesn\u2019t yet lead to \u201cpermanent supportive housing<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, involuntary elementary school doesn\u2019t always lead to an Ivy League degree, either, but it\u2019s a good first step.<\/p>\n

Nor is it remotely humane or compassionate to leave people to freeze to death just so you can push for some transformative change that might benefit others.<\/p>\n

Even the designation of a \u201cCode Blue,\u201d which means it\u2019s cold enough to override normal shelter admission policies, isn\u2019t enough to let the city force people to come inside, unless they\u2019re found to be in a state approaching death \u2014 but if they\u2019ve gone hiding after the \u201coutreach\u201d crew has stopped by, they probably won\u2019t get found in time.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s bizarre: Progressives are completely down with meddling maximally in people\u2019s lives most of the time \u2014 taxing us, regulating us, telling us how to tip on food delivery and where to dispose of our vegetable peels.<\/p>\n

But they become fiercely libertarian when it comes to letting mentally ill people refuse to come in out of the cold.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe law, in its majestic equality,\u201d snarked Nobel Prize winner Anatole France, \u201cforbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges.\u201d <\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s corollary is that the law permits rich and poor to sleep outside in the cold.<\/p>\n

Sorry: Virtually everyone sees the value in rejecting \u201cthe frigidity of rugged individualism\u201d in extreme cases, and the virtue of imposing the \u201cwarmth of collectivism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Live up to your clear promise, Mr. Mayor, and do right by the city\u2019s most vulnerable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brace yourself: This is the editors of the New York Post begging, urging Mayor Zohran Mamdani to live…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":555232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4691,176469,32459,7265,4166,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-555231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-editorial","10":"tag-homeless-encampments","11":"tag-homeless-shelters","12":"tag-homelessness","13":"tag-mental-illness","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-opinion","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115987230444033753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}