Thread by @Shannon_A_IL

Yesterday's 2025 Elections aren’t because of Republicans or Jews or or or or…

To me, it’s the BOOMER legacy that filed far-left surge in NYC and VA amid Democrat sweep…
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Yesterday's off-year elections on November 4, 2025, delivered a resounding Democratic victory across key battlegrounds, but the real story for far-left Democrats was in New York City, where democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani's mayoral win marked a seismic shift toward progressive dominance.

While Virginia's gubernatorial race went to what could now be called “garden variety woke” Abigail Spanberger—echoing the commonwealth's "VA wins" pattern of alternating parties off-presidential years—the NYC results stand out as a far-left triumph, propelled by record youth turnout and backlash to entrenched Boomer-era policies.

My parent friends in these states are worried for their kids as they see wealthy woke areas being consumed by the heavy weight competitor to liberty: socialism.

Mamdani, a 34-year-old assemblyman and DSA-backed candidate, defeated establishment figures like independent Andrew Cuomo (a Boomer Democrat) and Republican Curtis Sliwa by a margin of 52-28-18%, flipping even historically moderate Bronx precincts and achieving the highest NYC turnout since 1969 with over 2 million votes.

This wasn't just a win; it was a repudiation of Boomer-fueled status quo, where decades of fiscal fumbles and housing neglect radicalized younger voters into embracing socialist solutions.

Boomers, through their policies and intransigence, engineered this far-left breakthrough.

The Boomers’ housing hoarding ignited the affordable crisis that Mamdani campaigned on—

Baby Boomers, who snapped up NYC real estate in the affordable 1970s-90s (median prices ~$100K adjusted), have since weaponized NIMBYism to block reforms, inflating costs to today's $1.2M median home price per Zillow data. Their resistance to zoning changes and rent stabilization expansions—championed by Boomer-led councils in the 2000s—created a renter class squeezed by 5%+ annual hikes, with 1 in 5 NYC households rent-burdened.

Mamdani's platform of rent freezes, free buses, and universal childcare resonated because Boomers' "I've got mine" ethos left millennials and Gen Z facing eviction tsunamis: NYC's eviction filings hit 25,000 in 2024 alone, per city data.

Exit polls showed under-40 voters (non-Boomers) giving Mamdani 65% support, up 15 points from de Blasio's 2013 margins, as they punished Boomer-backed moderates like Cuomo for perpetuating the crisis.

In Queens and Brooklyn—where Boomer homeowners dominate community boards—this translated to DSA-endorsed council candidates sweeping 12 of 15 open seats, per NYT precinct maps.

Boomers didn't just vote (their 60% turnout favored Cuomo by 2:1); they built the unaffordable dystopia that made far-left promises the only antidote.

Fiscal recklessness from the 1975 crises to de blasio’s book is how : boomers normalized socialist spending.

The 1975 NYC bankruptcy—under Boomer activists pushing unchecked welfare expansion—set a precedent for debt-fueled governance that Boomers later romanticized. As adults, they elected Bill de Blasio (Boomer ally) in 2013 with policies like universal pre-K that ballooned the budget to $100B+ by 2025, yet left infrastructure crumbling (subway delays up 40% since 2010) and pensions (90% Boomer retirees) devouring 12% of funds.

This hypocrisy—preaching progressivism while saddling successors with $150B in long-term liabilities—eroded trust in centrists, paving Mamdani's path.

Mamdani's win, with 55% in progressive strongholds like East Harlem, capitalized on this: Voters cited "cost of living" as their top issue (48% per AP), blaming Boomer-era tax breaks for the wealthy (e.g., Cuomo's 2011 cuts) that widened inequality.

Far-left council progressives, now holding 75% of seats, owe their gains to Boomer donor networks that once funded moderates but shifted to DSA in the 2020s amid scandals like Adams' corruption probe.

It's Boomer overreach—spending big on ideals, skimping on delivery—that made "socialist" a badge of urgency, (vs extremism). They killed charter schools and guaranteed teacher union and leftist dominance in education.

Institutional gatekeeping and cultural nostalgia of boomers moved the machine to the left.

Boomers control NYC's power brokers:
Media (NYT's Boomer editors amplified "defund" debates), unions (they led AFSCME's shift to DSA endorsements), and philanthropy (Ford Foundation grants, Boomer-directed, funneled $10M+ to progressive PACs in 2025).

Their nostalgia for 1960s activism morphed into tolerance for far-left tactics, like the 2020 BLM protests they praised but whose policing fallout (crime up 20% under Adams) they ignored from gated suburbs.

This enabled Mamdani's grassroots machine: 735K early votes, 70% from under-50s, per Board of Elections, overwhelming Boomer turnout in primaries and generals.

Even in VA, where garden variety lefties like Spanberger won (52% vs. Earle-Sears' 47%), the Democratic House retention (53-47) included far-left gains in NoVA suburbs, fueled by Boomer-induced federal layoffs under Trump (echoing their own 1980s deregulations).

Boomers' grip—voting 55% for Cuomo, per exits—fractured the center, letting far-left insurgents like Mamdani claim the throne.

In NYC, yesterday's results weren't a fluke; they were Boomer karma manifesting as far-left vindication.

Boomer prosperity poisoned the well, turning a city of opportunity into one of outrage, where only radical change sells. As Mamdani declared victory with a Debs quote, vowing to "topple dynasties," it's clear: Boomers dreamed the dream, but their nightmare delivery gifted the far left the gavel.

Heading into 2026 midterms, this blueprint warns: Ignore the generational bill, and the revolutionaries collect.

2026 should be defined by the economy AND ending boomer legacy wokism in schools, culture, and politics.

Wake up, normies.

-@Shannon_A_IL
A non woke mom raising kids in a blue state