To "Vote Blue No Matter Who":

Trump and Biden are both tools of the elite that is squeezing lower classes to death and working overtime to make the planet uninhabitable. You've fallen for the "good cop, bad cop" routine, and are trying browbeat the people who've caught on to the scam into adopting your delusion.

Presumably you do this so that you can feel virtuous and self-righteous. That's nice. Your current role is effectively persuading abuse victims into staying with their abuser. Don't expect a lot of gratitude.

Again:

A) Biden will almost certainly lose to Trump. He's a lifelong corporate servant, responsible for countless deaths as a career-long warmonger, and has been trying to gut Social Security and Medicare ever since he got into public office. He is in every sense except the literal one, a Republican.

B) As if that weren't enough, he is also clearly suffering from dementia. He should be in a nursing home, not the White House with his finger on the button. In that regard, he is again no better than Trump.

C) His policies on climate change will kill off the human race as surely as Trump's will. That's because they are the same in all but cosmetic ways. They both work for the oligarchs. It wouldn't even cross their minds to try to stop the extraction of fossil fuels or take any of the major actions necessary for the human race to live.

What you are advocating will kill off the entire species and many others. You are literally trying to shame us into approving the murder of every child who will ever be born from this day forward. More than that; when the human race dies, not a single goddamn policy that you claim to support will matter.

Identity politics? Everybody's the same color when they're dead: bone white and ash gray. Genitalia, gender preference, and gender identification are less then meaningless to the decomposed.

Immigration? The dead don't migrate, and it doesn't matter to them if they're in a cage or on a golden throne; they'll rot equally wherever they are.

The Supreme Court? It's been in the pocket of the oligarchs for a long time, and now is even more blatantly so with the assent of the DNC. So is the federal judiciary. Everything was lost long ago, because of sellout Democrats such as yourselves.

So if you think that you're going to get any of us to vote for your senile old crook, I suggest you hold your breath and wait.

What We Can DO

It occurs to me that _if we all do the same thing_, we can make a huge impact. If all of us who see that humanity is going to die if we don't take drastic action can agree on a course of action, we can be effective. We all tried supporting Bernie. That didn't work, but it wasn't because we failed; it's because we were fighting on the system's terms.

OF COURSE we lost. The game was rigged from the beginning. But if we fight on our OWN terms...we can win.

The occupy Movement scared the living s*** out of the establishment, both parties. They rolled out tanks in a coordinated nationwide attack to shut it down. They revealed the iron fist behind the velvet glove, and they usually try to avoid doing that. Why did they take that chance?

Because Occupy wasn't playing their game. They were beyond the control of the Establishment. They met face to face, making it harder for the establishment to monitor or troll them. They had no leaders (despite the best efforts of the Democratic party to claim leadership), so there was no one to corrupt or intimidate. They met in public spaces, so that the vast oppressed people of this country could see them and know that they weren't alone. THAT'S why Obama coordinated the nationwide crushing of the Occupy Movement: they were a real threat to the power of the elite.

What does that tell us?

I think it tells us that we have the power to threaten them, if we use it right. More than that: we can overthrow them. It's just a matter of fighting on our ground and our terms, not theirs.

Right now there's a hell of a lot of people who are (like me) angry and scared. There are more of us than we realize. A hell of a lot of people understand that what's happening is going to end up killing us all. So if we all can find a way to act together effectively...without being co-opted by Democratic groups or leaders or allowing trolls to overrun us...

We can win. All it will take is to figure out what approach to take. Maybe we need to revive the Occupy Movement, with improvements so that it can't be wiped out by denying it access to public spaces. Maybe we all need to join something like Extinction Rebellion or some other mass protest group. I think it's pretty clear that politics is not the way to go. Starting a new party is a nice fantasy, but it by itself will never be able to get the kind of power and traction in time to save billions of lives. That's not to say that we can't have a new progressive political party. It's just saying that depending on any one angle of attack is a mistake. We are multitudes; the numbers are on our side. We can take more than one avenue of approach at the same time. A new Occupy. Mass protests. A new political party, maybe. But altogether, the goal has to be survival. Because it's down to that, now.

"Fair Share" for Billionaires?

There has been a lot of talk lately about getting the oligarchs to pay their "fair share".

But they can't. These fortunes are founded on robbery and crimes on an unimaginable scale. How many lives has each billionaire ruined by sucking wealth upwards from the working class? How many lives have been blighted by loss of funds to education, special needs, the arts, and the sciences?

How many people have killed themselves due to debts and depression from living in a society that is being squeezed to death for every last penny?

How many people have developed cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and other "diseases of the poor" due to the pollution that we are all forced to breathe, eat, and drink so that these psychotic billionaires can continue to amass more and more?

The dead can never be made whole. Neither can children with lead poisoning. Or any of the other millions of victims of these monsters.

It's not a matter of them starting to pay their "fair share", although even that is something that the elite would die rather than allow. It's reparations for mass murder and torture. It's making a planet whole that they have set on fire with their unbounded greed.

There is no way that they can repay what they have stolen. There is no punishment severe enough to somehow balance their crimes. They cannot make right the wrongs that they've done. Even death and the death of their families, along with complete confiscation of everything they all have, wouldn't come close.

You can't repay one single baby for a nervous system that suffers from lead contamination. It can't be done.

The only possible action for a just people is that the oligarchs and their servants in politics and the media - all of them - should lose everything of material value that they have, and spend the rest of their lives as the poorest people on Earth. But still with food and shelter; because we aren't like them.

Let them spend the rest of their lives working to try to restore the Earth, and make good a fraction of the damage that they've done.

The DNC Online War Against Bernie

The DNC launched a massive attack online yesterday. All of a sudden posts from strangers appeared in progressive and Bernie groups across Facebook. They proclaimed that that we had to "vote blue no matter who". Their use of phrases like "Bernie Bros" was another giveaway. The whole thing was blatantly coordinated. One day nothing, the next day a flood of David Brock's trolls. It was just like 2016.

Do you remember 2016? I do. Every online group for progressives was hit by wave after wave of trolls, supporting each other and parroting the latest line of attack. Admins were approached to sell control of their groups; the going price was reportedly $10,000 for a healthy group. Many of them DID sell out, and those groups quickly converted to Hillary groups. New mods were brought on, and anyone who protested the new policies were purged without warning. Posting histories were reviewed and used as a basis for purging, too.

In groups where the admin wouldn't sell out, mods would get in somehow and abuse the hell out of their powers. They'd suspect or censor pro-Bernie posts and posters, and protect pro-Hillary and pro-DNC posts. Or new members would appear, post child pornography, and then report the group to Facebook. The groups were usually shut down. It was, frankly, frustrating as hell.

But it was effective. The DNC put at least $10,000,000.00 into online action - probably much more - and they shut down or crippled the vast majority of Bernie groups online. Progressives became refugees, a people without a home.

Today's attack shows that the DNC is sticking with the old playbook. We can expect them to escalate. We can protect ourselves somewhat by reporting DNC trolls to the admins - NOT to Facebook - and by the admins acting vigorously to ban the trolls. It won't be easy. But it has to be done.

Here's the key takeaway: The DNC is doing this for a reason. They want to see if they can shut us down again. *That means that they are planning to cheat us (and Bernie) out of the nomination again.*

We can't let them do that. We have to fight back and stay strong. We need to become good at recognizing enemy action and agents. They're not that good at disguising themselves, so this is something we can all do.

Social media is just one front of our political revolution. But it matters. If we show them that they can't silence us, can't get us to attack each other or accept their sleazy framing of issues, we can win. And that just might make them thing twice about cheating us out of our votes.

We need to make them afraid of us. We need to stand up against them. If we don't, they'll crush us into the dust. And that means the end not just of Bernie's campaign, but almost certainly the end of a future for the human race.

Warren's backdoor screw job

Elizabeth Warren's proposal is actually a back-door way to make working people pay more without realizing it. Right now, for those who get health care through their employer, part of their compensation is their health insurance cost. Say your health insurance costs $15,000, and you make $50,000; your total compensation is actually $65,000. Under Bernie's plan, your employer would have to give that $15,000 to you as part of your salary, once Medicare for All was implemented. You might pay (for example) $4,000 more per year in taxes, but you would be GETTING $15,000 more per year - PLUS full medical, dental, and vision coverage, with no premiums or co-pays. That's a huge increase.

But Warren wants to take that money and use it to pay for her "Medicare for All". That means that you would lose that $15,000! Ordinary workers will be footing the bill, if they happen to have been getting health insurance through their employer. It's a massive screw-job, carefully engineered to avoid "raising taxes" while nonetheless sticking the working people of America with most of the bill.

That Warren is willing to do that shows just how much she's in the pockets of the elite.

Nancy Pelosi Is Very Concerned

Apparently Nancy Pelosi is very concerned that Democratic candidates might have Democratic positions - except for matters of identity politics and talking about workers rights (as opposed to actually doing anything about them, of course).

But that she ridicules the idea of even trying to shut down the fossil fuel industry in 10 years shows that she really doesn't believe that we are facing potential extinction if drastic action isn't taken about the climate.

Or she just doesn't care. Either way, she might as well be a Republican.

Nuclear Power, and why not to use it

The thing about nuclear power is, it's run and monitored by human beings. We know that people can screw up or be corrupted. And the cost of things going wrong with nuclear is a lot worse than it is with renewable: Three Mile Island, Fukishima, Chernobyl...