California, brace yourselves and head to higher ground. There is a Blue Wave coming that conceals a Blue Crackdown.
In New Jersey [right], all the liberals, progressives, and labor “officials” lined up behind a new Democrat governor to stop MAGA; instead, Mikie Sherrill stood with MAGA’s most notorious shock troops: private prisons, ICE, and cops against striking prison workers and their supporters rebelling against the new slavery.
In Virginia, new governor “CIA” Abigail Spanberger did the same, vetoing laws that might have placed small obstacles in Red MAGA’s path.
The California crackdown was already foretold when the Democrats kicked the Green Party’s Butch Ware off the ballot, and the progressives, labor “leaders,” radicals, and so-called socialists had nothing to say about it (except the DSA, which piled on).
Behind every Red MAGA chanting “America First,” stands a Blue MAGA repeating “lesser evil” as if a wedding vow. Instead of marriage to the machine, let’s all strive to tear it asunder.
Related Off-site Links:
The Democratic Party: Architects of Cowardice, Accomplices to Fascism – Henry A. Giroux (CounterPunch, September 8, 2025).
Liberals Can’t Confront Authoritarianism – Cyrus Gazdar (The Medium, November 17, 2025).
Why the Democratic Party Can’t Save Us From Trump’s Authoritarianism – Henry A. Giroux (Truthout, August 21, 2017).
The Iron Ceiling: Would the Oligarchy Steal an Election From the Green Party? – Dorothy Lennon (Dorothy Lennon Revolutionary, May 28, 2026).
Unions Decry Spanberger Veto of Collective Bargaining Bill as “Betrayal to Virginia’s Workers” – Stephen Prager (Common Dreams, May 15, 2026).
“Subversion of Law and Order”: ICE Violence Escalates at Newark’s GEO-Run Jail, Delaney Hall – Democracy Now! (May 29, 2026).
New Jersey State Police Join Crackdown Against Supporters of Hunger-Striking Immigrants at Delaney Hall – Democracy Now! (June 1, 2026).
Democrats Panic Over Green Party Candidate: An Interview with Dr. Butch Ware – Bad Faith (March 30, 2026).
Green Party Candidate for California Governor Butch Ware Kicked Off the Ballot – The Spiritual and Political Podcast (March 27, 2026).
Inside Butch Ware’s Vision For California: Healthcare, Housing, and a Political Shake-Up – Matthew Levitt (Fathom, March 2026).
Why Status-Quo Dems Should Heed the Progressive Earthquake in New Jersey – Martin Burns (Common Dreams, February 13, 2026).
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
THE FAILURES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
• Authoritarianism With a Blue Sticker
• The Time for Illusions Is Over: Henry Giroux on the Democratic Party
• David Norton: “The Democratic Party Serves Capital, Not You”
• Mike Figueredo: “Elected Democrats Have No Real Interest in Doing What the Base Wants”
• Tony Pentimalli on the Fallacy of the “Safe Political Center”
• Genny Harrison on Brian Tyler Cohen’s Interview with Obama
• Progressives and Obama
• Jeff Cohen on How Obama’s “Corporate Liberalism” Led to the Rise of Trump
• Progressive Perspectives on Kamala Harris’s Book, 107 Days
• Adam Bates on the Team Blue / Kamala “I Told Ya So” Smugness Tour
• The Lamentable Legacy of the Biden/Harris Administration
• Progressive Perspectives on Where Democrats Went Wrong in 2024
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism
• David Sirota: Quote of the Day – January 26, 2021
• Progressive Perspectives On an American Coronation
• Marianne Williamson: “‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’ Is Not Enough to Win”
• Nick Cruse: “‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’ Is the Privileged Position”
• Centrist/Corporatist Democrats Have Just Launched “Left Punching” Season
BUTCH WARE
• Introducing California’s Gubernatorial Candidate Butch Ware
• “The Moment Is Ripe”: Butch Ware on Building a “True Oppositional Alternative” to the Duopoly
• Butch Ware on His Run for California Governor and the Wider Goal of Disrupting the Duopoly
• Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – January 30, 2025
• Butch Ware on Efforts by the Democratic Party to Block His Green Party Run for California Governor
• Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – June 5, 2025
• Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – November 26, 2025
• Butch Ware on “Red & Blue vs Green Politics”
• “We Have the Power to Stop the Flow of Money and the False Legitimacy Upon Which Empire Depends”
• “People Really Want New Options in Politics”
• Butch Ware on the Hard Knock Radio Show
• Photo of the Day – March 3, 2026
• Butch Ware and the Gatekeepers Within the Democratic Party
• Butch Ware: “I’m Trying to Take Care of People”
• Hey, Liberals! We Need to Talk
• Butch Ware on the Democrats’ “Lawfare” to Keep Greens Off the Ballot
• Dorothy Lennon: Quote of the Day – June 1, 2026
Image: Anti-ICE protesters stand in opposition to a line of New Jersey State Police. (Photo: Julian Leshay Guadalupe / USA Today Network)
1 comment:
It’s absolutely mind boggling to me that anyone should vote for ANY Democrat or Republican anywhere. The anger amongst the poor and working classes, who in total vastly outnumber the super wealthy, whose interests in a decent life (environment, health, education, community) have been repeatedly betrayed, ignored, literally poisoned, squandered, or whittled away for actual decades in favour of obscene excess, corruption, and violence should make a massive Green revolution immediately obvious.
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