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The Democratic Establishment has lost its collective mind--we have to resist fascism in two fronts now

Fellow Cassandras, political junkies, community activists and independent journalists will not be surprised by this post. In fact, they may even be bored by it.

But I feel compelled to write it because we have some newcomers to the antifascist movement and some of them may need this message before the primaries on August 4, definitely before November 2026 and most definitely before November 2028.

Since January 2025, these United States have faced some of the gravest assaults on what was left or ever existed of this so-called “Democratic Republic,” and we have collectively witnessed some of the most vile attacks on universal human rights and the Constitution.

People kidnapped by masked thugs without badges in broad daylight and sent to camps; American citizens murdered in the streets; journalist intimidated, bullied, forced out of their jobs; media and law companies, academic institutions sued; state governments being held hostage or blackmailed for refusing to share private information of voters, SNAP users, Medicaid/Medicare clients.

We have been collectively abused and gaslit for some 20 months straight on the daily, with authoritarianism and fascism creeping in not-so-subtly and very, very deliberately, making the oppressive governments of the world very, very jealous.

And suddenly, this summer, the Democratic Establishment got very, very agitated. Was it because of fascism? Was it over the human rights’ violations? The attacks on the Fourth Estate?

NAH.

The Democratic Establishment lost its collective shit over the electoral victories and the popularity in polls of the candidates who hail from the progressive wing of the party.

That’s right, you know who the problem children are, obviously: those pesky Pinko Commies who wanna tax billionaires and stand against genocide and actually provide services that are the pinnacles of civilizations, you know, healthcare, education, housing and equal rights and stuff to all. How Dare They?

Hakeem Jeffries is mad as hell and cannot take it anymore. James Carville is pissed. Rahm Emanuel can't stand it.

What Are These Pesky Democratic Socialists doing to these beautiful United States, really?

I dunno, man. From where I sit, it looks to me like they are running candidates who resonate with The Public and Winning.

I thought that was the whole point of elections, winning, you know?

Haley Stevens in Michigan claims that Is Real comes to her in her dreams, what? Amy Klobuchar, Ms. Throws-Binders-at-Staff and Eats-Salads-on-Airplanes-with-a-Comb, Xitted that Lady G was a “friend,” really?

And I lost one of my oldest, dearest friends in the ugliest way possible when they had the audacity and gall to ask if I ever faced discrimination in these United States because I’m white-passing and speak such good English, implying I couldn’t possibly understand the discrimination that their Jewish spouse feels in many parts of the world, even, gasp, some places here at home.

Love me, I’m a liberal, indeed.

It’s cool to bomb brown people back to the stone age and level children’s schools, but don’t you dare speak ill of the warmonger dead.

Oh, America, I am losing my mind.

You are giving me the worst existential crisis.

But, I gather my resolve one last time to be the one who puts it on the official record that this fight is rigged and crooked, like it’s always been, but worse.

These twatwaffles who have been telling us, “Vote Blue, No Matter Who,” “Blue Tsunami,” blah, blah, blah, now having the audacity to double-down on the gaslighting and telling us to swallow “Fash Lite” and like it… no, thank you.

Listen, I KNOW this is not new. I’ve been here long enough to see what they did to Ralph Nader, Howard Dean and Bernard Sanders.

I stopped watching MSThen back in 2016 & broke up with Rachel Maddow for good. I think the National Petroleum Report (NPR) and the New York Times are too right wing for my taste.

I just keep breaking up & cutting folks and organizations outta my life. No, it’s serious, I’m doing it for what’s left of my sanity and my analog brilliance.

No one gives medals out for surviving this shitshow on the daily.

But, here’s the point? Is there a point? Yes, absolutely.

My fellow Americans, please go to the polls on Aug. 4, and tell these dinosaurs to go extinct already.

Vote for every candidate that is endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, the Workers’ Party, for every person that the DNC is “concerned about.” Because, fuck them, that’s why.

If this is, indeed, a simulated reality show, I at least expect the packaging of the opposition to look like they are at least faking IT.

LET’S MAKE James Carville, Hakeem Jeffries, Rahm Emanuel cry on Tuesday.

I believe in US.