As the Humanist Report and others make clear, Joe Biden is going to be Hillary Clinton 2.0, and letting the DNC steal the nomination away from Bernie Sanders or Tulsi Gabbard, as it did to the former in 2016, will only guarantee the Great Orange Dope a second term.

This is not mere hyperbole. Even establishment outlets such as the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post see the writing on the wall.

But let it not be said that elite Democrats learn from their mistakes. That is why it’s vital that the party nominate either Sanders or Gabbard, or perhaps both on the same ticket. If the nomination goes to a corporate troll like Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, John Delaney, or Creepy Joe Biden, then we’ll have wasted yet another four years while the planet continues to heat up.

There are three small children, all under the age of four, running around who get 50% of their genes from me. I want them to have a viable future, a better one than I ended up getting. That isn’t going to happen with Caligula Drumpf in the Oval Office.

The far right of the Democratic Party had chance after chance to get things right. After eight years of milquetoast Barry O’Bomber continuing and expanding upon each and every one of the Bush-Cheney regime’s policies, the party could have looked at the mood of the country, accepted that it’s been trending leftward for many years now, and accepted the truth. Instead, it doubled down, used the same voter-suppression and vote-rigging methods implemented by Karl Rove in two consecutive elections in the early 2000s, and childishly demanded that the public acquiesce to its selfish demands.

We’ve seen the disastrous consequences—a blatantly racist, homophobic, warmongering, regulation-destroying, criminally corrupt imbecile polluting the airwaves from the most powerful seat in the nation while taking a wrecking ball to the country—and blaming Russia and Wikileaks again isn’t going to cut it; it never did and it never will.

Here’s an idea. Instead of letting the party leaders steal the nomination away from the rightful winner again, only to anoint the ONE career politician idiot enough to lose to a boy who paints his face orange and thinks he can fool people into believing it’s a real tan (you did that in 2016 and it failed utterly), let democracy play out. Warren is okay, but, like Sanders, is incredibly wishy-washy against certain sectors of policy, particularly the military-industrial-surveillance establishment. Sanders’ domestic policies are excellent and unlike Obama, would actually fight for real change. Gabbard’s foreign policy positions actually make sense. We can no longer treat the rest of the world like vassal states, or sustained prolonged military engagements be they overt or covert.

So the choice is now in the hands of the elite, far right Democrats: stubbornly, childishly cling to power even if it means the extinction of the human race from climate catastrophe, or finally step aside and allow we adults to save us all.

Of course, we all know which choice they’ll make, and it’s the same one they always render. The real question is, will the rest of us passively accept it?