Although I agree with every word of the above meme I’m still going to be part of today’s “No Kings” event in St. Paul, regardless of its connection to the Democratic Party.
The message on the sign I’ll be carrying reflects a deeper understanding of what many of us recognize needs to be protested, resisted, and ultimately transformed. Not just Trump, but the whole corporatist/oligarchic system that produced him, a system that both parties helped create and continue to maintain.
For artictles about the DNC’s and Biden administration’s unfair manipulation of the 2024 Democratic primaries, see:
Looking Back, the Democratic Party Rigged the Primary Process for Biden – Dennis Kucinich (The Kucinich Report, July 23, 2024).
DNC Sabotage: The Silencing of Marianne Williamson and the Fight for a Fair Democratic Process – ElleBeah LB (ElleBeah’s Substack, July 21, 2024).
Partisan Primaries Failed to Vet President Biden – Jeremy Gruber and John Opdycke (The Fulcrum, July 19, 2024).
Biden is Lying About the Sham Democratic Primaries – Jeff Alson (The Hill, July 9, 2024).
Marianne Williamson Accuses DNC of “Rigging” the Primary System for Biden – Steven Shepard (The Hill, March 5, 2024).
Are the Presidential Primaries Rigged? – Nate Plautz (Represent Us, February 15, 2024).
Biden and Trump Both Tilted the Playing Field – Steven Shepard (Politico, February 3, 2024).
Biden Is Wielding the DNC’s Power to Crush a Potential Primary Challenge in 2024 – Norman Solomon (Salon, February 3, 2023).
For artictles relating to Kamala Harris’s “coronation,” see:
Harris-Walz’s Good Vibes Aren’t Enough – David Sirota (Jacobin, August 10, 2024).
Kamala Harris is an Accomplice to Gaza Genocide Says “Abandon Biden” Co-chair and Palestinian-American Farah Khan – Status Coup via YouTube (August 10, 2024).
Palestinians Won’t Vote for Kamala’s Crocodile Tears, “Can’t Get Worse Than Genocide” – Status Coup via YouTube (August 11, 2024).
Kamala Harris and the Misalignment with Black Voter Expectations – ElleBeah LB (ElleBeah’s Substack, August 14, 2024).
Journalists Defend Kamala Harris’s Lack of Interviews – Glenn Greenwald (System Update, August 15, 2024).
Kamala Harris Fully Supports Arming Israel, No Different Than Biden – The Electronic Intifada via YouTube (August 16, 2024).
Democracy Despises a Coronation – Hamiliton Nolan (In These Times, August 15, 2024).
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
JOE BIDEN
• Progressive Perspectives on Joe Biden’s Presidential Run (2019)
• Beto, Biden and Buttigieg: “Empty Suits and Poll-Tested Brands”
• Progressive Perspectives on Big Tuesday and Beyond (2020)
Something to Think About – March 23, 2020
• Progressive Perspectives on the Biden-Harris Ticket
• Eight Leading Progressive Voices on Why They’re Voting for Biden
• We Cannot Allow a Biden Win to Mean a Return to “Brunch Liberalism”
• Election Eve Thoughts
• Election Day USA, 2020
• Progressive Perspectives on the 2020 U.S. Election Results
• “As Much the Sounding of An Alarm As a Time for Self-Congratulations”
• Voters, Not the DNC, Should Choose the Nominee (2023)
• “Let the People Decide”: Marianne Williamson on the DNC’s Efforts to Deny and Suppress the Democratic Process
• The Democrats Challenging Biden
• Yes, Just Imagine (2024)
KAMALA HARRIS
• Progressive Perspectives on an American Coronation (2024)
• Marianne Williamson: “‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’ Is Not Enough to Win in November”
• Peter Savodnik: Quote of the Day – August 22, 2024
• Progressive Perspectives on the Presidential Nomination of Kamala Harris
• Miles Kampf-Lassin on the “Flashing Red Warning Signs” for the Harris Campaign
• Progressive Perspectives on Kamala Harris’s Faltering Presidential Campaign
• Progressive Perspectives on Where Democrats Went Wrong in the 2024 Presidential Election
• Progressive Perspectives on Kamala Harris’s Book, 107 Days (2025)
THE FAILURES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
• Mike Figueredo on the “Political Malpractice” of the Democratic Party
• Ted Rall: Democrats Are Not “the Left”
• Exposing the Dark Money Network Secretly Funding Establishment Democratic Influencers
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism
• Howie Hawkins: “The Democrats Are Not the Answer to the Trump/Fascism Problem”
• The Longstanding Fault Lines Within the Democratic Party Have Surfaced Again in Minnesota
• Jeff Cohen on How Obama’s “Corporate Liberalism” Led to the Rise of Trump
• Progressive Perspectives on Bernie Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” Tour
• Eric Fernández: Quote of the Day – May 14, 2025
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025
• How Democrats Can Start Winning Again
THE GREEN PARTY
• “The Moment Is Ripe”: Butch Ware on Building a “True Oppositional Alternative” to the Duopoly
• “It Is Our Responsibility to Make a Third Party Viable”
• We’re Witnessing a Liberal Meltdown Over Jill Stein
• “We Give Reasons for People to Come Out and Vote”
• Butch Ware: “You Can Actually Vote Your Conscience”
• The “Green Smoothie” Option
• When Democrats Undermine Democracy
• “The Next Step Is a Green Step”: Cornel West Endorses Jill Stein (2016)
• Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein: Is An “Historic Collaboration” in the Making? (2016)
• Demolishing the False Narrative About Jill Stein and the 2016 Election
• Hope Over Fear: Voting Green
Image: Power to the People.
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