I'm a boomer and I'll be the first to tell you that it is time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans.

[augyboston]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/24/new-york-mayoral-primary-results

Mamdani's win is exhilarating. Our party needs to get younger and aggressively embrace its ideals.

The days of Republican Light are over!

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Good, but history is littered with young socialists over-promising

freeze rent and free buses.

Freeze rent: landlords will lower investment and repair in their properties

free buses: That's going to come in contact with reality of how to pay for it

[cally]

2. Maybe but seems capitalism overpromises and under delivers

How has tax cuts for the rich worked out? How has subsidies for inner city investment worked out? How has need to reduce regulations to stimulate investment workout or long term no tax on internet sales worked out.

I don’t consider myself a socialist nor a democratic socialist but we need new ideas, new energy. NYC has had rent control for a long time yet still thrives. Many, many major cities offer free buses and reduced transportation costs. I’m not willing to say it won’t work when many of our current approaches don’t work.

[augyboston]

4. There's the boogie man word, "Socialists" that is always used by naysayers. I say Yes We Can!

[bucolic_frolic]

5. That's how the article labeled him. /nt

[KPN]

41. Well, it actually labeled him as what he calls himself -- a democratic socialist as Bernie does. But yeah, the label

has been demonized by the Rs over decades sufficiently so that it is equated by many with USSR style communism. Definitely a hurdle ... but perhaps and hopefully not invincible. I do think there is value in embracing the term socialism proudly and openly as opposed to shunning and shrinking away from it. All public services and goods are essentially socialism. That's not a complex notion.

[BOSSHOG]

28. I say socialist and socialism as if they are good things.

Because guys who need bigger yachts have made them good things. The big beautiful bill which is as ugly as a cross between a trump and a hegseth have made them good things. Any Republican in Washington who orates loudly gives justification for them being good things.

I’m a Vet. I served for liberty and Justice and the constitution including that quaint notion of due process. I did not serve so billionaires could buy votes to get bigger yachts through paying less taxes. Socialism V Fascism? The choice couldn’t be clearer today in the USA. Go ahead. Make you choice.

[Klondike Kat]

7. Perhaps, but I'd choose them over young fascists

which seem to be what Republicans are cultivating.

The Overton Window needs to be pulled back to the left, bit by bit. What was previously left is now center-right and what was right is now extreme right/fascist. That's my nickel's worth (inflation).

[Emile]

15. Recent history is full of centrists losing elections.

[Magoo48]

20. Perhaps, but this is the here and now.

The Young folks out there at this moment, are as focused on the problems at hand as any of the old guard, and, they bring their enthusiasm, stamina, and determination which are bonuses of their youth. We are in a right fucking Fix, so, lets Incorporated the new, especially in places where some of our leaders now seem to be rocking back, leaving the real fighting to a much treasured view.

[tinrobot]

23. As opposed to old Republicans who flat out lie?

I mean, seriously.

Perhaps he promises a lot, but even getting half those promises enacted moves the needle in the proper direction.

[Emile]

27. Sounds better than another tax cut for billionaires.

[delisen]

3. Big money donors have lost in NYC. Fabulous.

Bringing in new voters also fabulous.

So far, so good.

[WVreaper]

6. As a 71 year old white anglo saxon

We need new blood!

[3Hotdogs]

12. As an 82 y.o., Irish, Italian, Aryian (really, and don't ask, 'cause I don't know),

I agree.

Jimmy wanted to vote for Kamala before he died.

I hope I get to vote for A.O.C.

[multigraincracker]

8. I don't care about age. I will support whoever pushes SINGLE PAYER.

Health care is killing everyone here.

[barbtries]

9. I'm generation Hippie myself,

and I endorse this message.
We fucked it up for the coming generations, but they have the brilliance and the energy to make it right for themselves. Not that I'll just go hide in a corner, but I'm ready for the next generations to assume leadership.

[hadEnuf]

10. Out of control predatory capitalism eventually invites more socially orientated candidates.

Trump destroying the social safety net and letting the treasury be looted is the very definition of predatory capitalism. Not to mention the authoritarian crackdown that is happening.

This has happened throughout modern history.

[LSparkle]

13. FDR 😀

[Emile]

16. +1

[bdamomma]

29. In chaos

you can steal............words from

Randi Rhodes

[Lotusflower70]

11. Hmmm

New blood is one thing but he has a big problem with coalition building and alienating certain demographics. He is also generating a GOP throwback to 9/11 that is very concerning. He is being labeled as anti-police, been seeing a lot of his defund the police tweets being posted. He is helping GOP fundraising

[moonshinegnomie]

22. and he was running against a repeat sexual harrasser

a centrist who only excited the old guard whos time has passed.

[Lotusflower70]

25. There is that

Right. The bar was so low. He wasn't competing against much. He is not at all prepared for what is coming from the other side

[Emile]

33. and the NY Police Union endorsed Trump.

[markpkessinger]

39. Mamdani "has a big problem with coalition building?"

Seems to me that he built quite a coalition for this election!

See https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/25/opinion/mamdani-cuomo-new-york-mayor-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.R08.EDLF.J4wTA7Y3wf29&smid=url-share

[Lotusflower70]

44. It worked for now

Yes but he has a problem with the base of the Democratic party. I think generally there is a blatant disregard for experience and black people particularly black women. A lot of people were split and he is not making outreach to them. After the last election, the party is moving to center white men again. 9/11 is coming up in an ugly way for him.

[AllyCat]

14. We need younger people running! Yes!

We need a mix of representatives that look like our country!

[FakeNoose]

17. I'm a boomer too and I can remember the days when we didn't have all the answers

We thought we knew everything ... then we found out otherwise.

Along with youth comes energy and a lot of hubris.

My awakening began in my early 40s when I started taking trips to Europe, mostly to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. What they've done in post-war Europe - with our help - is more of an eye-opener than anything I've seen here in the US. More Americans need to go there with an open mind and a clear knowledge of 20th century history.

[Torchlight]

18. I think there are more than enough torches for anyone who wants one.

[AllaN01Bear]

19. all americans should be on this . i am ready to check out and have been for a long time

note, ai aint going to fo anything stupid.

[moonshinegnomie]

21. Im also a boomer. its time for the old guard to pass the torch

ive been saying this for a while. its time for the old guard (which i call anyone who was in office when clinton was elected to his first term) to retire. we need mre young firebrands like aoc,crockett,and the like

[walkingman]

26. Boomer here also - of course that is not gonna happen

but I see the party moving more and more that way. I hope things don't have to get worse before the message is clear.

[Progressive dog]

24. Age is everything bad

Experience means nothing. That's how we win, especially with the birth rate dropping.

[sakabatou]

30. I'm sure we're gonna see more Gen X and Millenials voted in

[bdamomma]

31. The torch

should not only be passed to younger blood and new ideas.

Those in the Congress who are way past retirement should retire. We know who they are.

[CousinIT]

32. Agree. And they need to go full Dem socialist/FDR. Nt

[Joinfortmill]

35. Yup. It's coming.

[Joinfortmill]

34. Me, too. Totally agree.

[OC375]

36. About Time

They'll pass the torch and the biggest transfer of generational wealth in history, right past X and on to Millennials and Gen Z. Thanks, I guess.

[Jack Valentino]

37. A younger generation who have not been brought up on the ideal of "compromise"---

since the Republican party has long since abandoned that ideal,
there is no one LEFT to compromise with---!!!

(but older Democrats such as Schumer continue to search for them...)


I seek new leaders who are very willing to SPEAK HARSHLY
against the Republican party, their politicians, and their policies---

and Democrats who fail to do so because they hope to have a drink after-hours
with those Republicans, are sadly deluded....


Anybody with two brain cells left to rub together KNOWS
that those Republicans would cut off their own limbs
before having a drink after-hours with a DEMOCRAT,
"the very spawn of SATAN"! (Ironic, that!)

[Sparkly]

38. I'm a boomer, too

and I know we are dying. I literally have stage 4 cancer.

We are "passing the torch" and we have to.

I'm just sick of all the agism (along with the renewed sexism) against the most active, progressive youth movement you'll ever see! No, it wasn't perfect, but it got a lot done for civil rights, women's rights, economic opportunity, and the end to idiotic wars.

Now here we are again. It's fun to idolize the youth of the 60s and 70s then, right? But not now, when they're old (with one exception). The 80s "ME" generation won, and they're still mad at the boomers.

It's a sad, sad situation.

[KPN]

43. Sorry to hear Sparkly. Hope you are holding up well.

[Ping Tung]

40. "Young wolves, show us your teeth." John Steinbeck

I'm s preboomer and endorse the above statement.

[KPN]

42. All three of my adult children have been saying that they and all their friends support a

better balance between capitalism and socialism for nearly two decades now. That movement in thinking has only grown.

My view? If we want to save our democracy and Constitution, we baby boomers need to do everything we can to support and promote these young people and their leaders -- even if that means telling our generation's leaders it's time to yield and pass the torch. It's the young people's futures, not ours.