Quote of the Day

Says Butch Ware, Green Party candidate for Governor of California . . .

Only massive civil disobedience is going to save us now.

Electoral politics alone CANNOT save us.

Team Red is staging a full authoritarian takeover, and Team Blue cannot and will not fight it because to do so would alienate their donors and end their party.

Meanwhile, the media is normalizing every successive step in the collapse of even the pretense of democracy.

– Butch Ware
via social media
October 6, 2025

Related Off-site Links:
Trump Troops “Deliberately Attacking Peaceful Protesters” in U.S. Cities, Senator Says – Stephen Prager (Common Dreams, October 6, 2025).
Governors Warn of “Martial Law” and Trump “Invasion” as U.S. Judge Halts Troop Order – for Now – Jon Queally (Common Dreams, October 6, 2025).
White House Responds with “Authoritarian Propaganda” as Judge Blocks National Guard in Portland – Julia Conley (Common Dreams, October 5, 2025).
Now That Fascism Is Here – John Pavlovitz (The Beautiful Mess, October 4, 2025).
The “Department of War” Is Designed to Fight American Citizens – Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark, October 1, 2025).
“Hitleresque”: Retired Major General William Enyart Links Trump Speech to Nazi Propaganda – MSNBC (September 30, 2025).
Is This the Beginning of the End for U.S. Democracy? – Amy La Porte (Common Dreams, September 30, 2025).
Meet Dr. Butch Ware: The Green Party’s Rebrand Campaign for California Governor – Ryan Hutson (Redheaded Blackbelt, September 28, 2025).
Feeling Powerless Doesn’t Mean You Are Powerless – Daniel Hunter (Waging Nonviolence, September 19, 2025).
What Would a General Strike in the U.S. Actually Look Like? – Jeremy Brecher (Waging Nonviolence, April 8, 2025).


See also the previous Wild Reed posts:

BUTCH WARE
• Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – June 5, 2025
• Butch Ware on His Run for California Governor and the Wider Goal of Disrupting the Duopoly
• “The Moment Is Ripe”: Butch Ware on Building a “True Oppositional Alternative” to the Duopoly
• Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – January 30, 2025
• The Green Party’s Jill Stein and Butch Ware Give Their First Post-Election Interview
• “This Is a Tragic, Heartbreaking Moment in the History of Humanity”: Butch Ware on the Gaza Genocide
• Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate Butch Ware in Minneapolis
• Butch Ware: “You Can Actually Vote Your Conscience”
• Butch Ware: “I’m Not Here as a Spoiler”


THE RISE OF FASCISM IN THE U.S.
• James Greenberg: “I Am in Mourning for America”
• An Incident That Feels “Ripped from a Dystopian Novel”
• The “Creeping Fascism of Trump’s America”: A View from Australia
• Will Potter on Trump’s War on Dissent: “This Is What Fascists Do”
• Derek Johnson on the “Courage to Call Fascism by Its Name”
• Jason Duchin: Quote of the Day – September 24, 2025
• Staying Strong in Trump’s Fascist America
• James Greenberg on the Identity Politics of MAGA
• “This Is What Fascism Looks Like in Practice”
• Garrett Graff: “America Tips Into Fascism”
• Marianne Williamson: “We’re Moving Into Totalitarianism”
• “It’s Here, and We Are Sleepwalking Through It”
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Donald Trump’s Militarization of Law Enforcement
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 20, 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
• Progressive Perspectives on Kamala Harris’s Book, 107 Days
• 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


SIGNS OF HOPE
• “No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”
• Chris Smalls: We Need to Escape the “Two-Party Plantation”
• Kshama Sawant: Independent Working-class Campaigns Can Succeed
• The Rational National’s Take on Zohran Mamdani
• Omar Fateh: “We Need to Meet the Needs of Working People”
• Something to Think About – July 25, 2025
• In His Efforts to “Build a City That Works for All,” Omar Fateh Secures a Key Endorsement
• Butch Ware on His Run for California Governor and the Wider Goal of Disrupting the Duopoly
• Marianne Williamson on the Need for “Radical Love” in Responding to Trump’s Dismantling of Democracy
• “Protesting Is What Patriotism Looks Like in Public”