Donna Brazile is still acting chair of the DNC.

Still.

The new head of Senate Democrats is going to be Chuck Schumer, who supported the Iraq invasion, the Patriot Act, the repeal of Glass-Steagall and the Wall Street bailouts.

The elites of the Democratic party conspired to subvert the influence of the will of the people upon the Democratic nomination process using superdelegates, endorsements, their unbelievable amount of control over the media, manipulations of primary dates and the number of debates along with untold leverage behind the scenes in order to ensure the nomination of a half-dead unfathomably corrupt candidate under multiple FBI investigations who nobody liked or wanted.

As a direct result of this, the most powerful and influential nation on the planet is now controlled by a man who has tweeted to his millions of followers that global warming is a Chinese hoax, and who has not thereafter tweeted “Sorry, my account was hacked, I might be crazy but I’m not global-warming-is-a-Chinese-hoax crazy.”

We are so screwed. Renewables, nuclear, carbon capture & storage right now. https://t.co/ADqEpLFZ6l pic.twitter.com/uhThd7GsoO — Kevin Schawinski (@kevinschawinski) November 15, 2016

A new climate change estimate published in Science last week predicts an increase in global average temperature of between 4.78 and 7.36°C by 2100 unless something changes very drastically very soon. This statistic isn’t fully relevant to humans though because at the upper end of that estimate it’s unlikely there will be any humans around to experience it. So at least we can take comfort in our grandchildren not having to cope with those pesky seven degree average temperature hikes.

An increase in global average temperature means that the whole entire planet is that much hotter as temperatures average out for an entire year. So an average increase of one degree doesn’t mean you go from having a 31 degree day to a 32 degree day, it means there were enough massive temperature spikes in the summer months of each hemisphere to increase the entire average by one degree. The higher the average increase, the more record-shattering temperature spikes are being experienced around the world. More record-high temperature spikes means dead crops and the collapse of industrial agriculture, which means global famine, mass migrations, wars over resources, panic and predation as plant proteins are unable to survive extreme heat spikes and the ensuing deep freezes in the winter months as climate chaos ensues.

We are hurtling toward that, and the establishment Democrats just pressed their foot down on the gas, not just by choosing a losing candidate against a climate-denying imbecile, but by running their own candidate who wouldn’t likely have been much better. Yes, unlike Trump she would have made some small, feeble changes to climate policy within the strict permissions of her billionaire owners, but she would have also tried to push forward planet-killing trade agreements, a war in Syria over a pipeline and a likely war with Russia as a result, all of which would have been environmentally catastrophic, especially if somebody deployed a nuclear weapon in the chaos of a Russian war. With Trump, we at least get a pause on American oil wars and the death of the environmental policy-killing TPP, and hopefully congressional term limits, so we might have to evolve beyond our ecocidal ways somewhat just to build a different kind of economy than the ones the sociopathic plutocrats have us running out of necessity.

Either way, Mother Earth wasn’t getting much help from either of these historically awful candidates. And either way, that is the fault of the leaders of the Democratic party. They did this to us. They have betrayed our future, our species and our planet, all to keep their billionaire donors ensuring their continued political careers. It’s entirely possible that they signed the death warrant of our species this year all for a little money.

And for this, they must pay. The Democratic establishment has proven beyond a doubt that it does not deserve to live. We must kill it. All inertia bogging down our progressive revolution must be expunged from the mechanisms of the Democratic party so that we can harness the energy and enthusiasm of the people just like Bernie Sanders did, enabling us to make one last-ditch effort to steer our species away from the brink of extinction by winning elections like Bernie would have done, had he not been actively sabotaged by these soul-sucking parasites every step of the way.

This is it, humans of America. It’s time to wrest the steering wheel completely free from the talons of these ecocidal maniacs and steer this thing where we know it needs to go. We must make sure that these horrible people are acutely aware that they do not get to surf on the waves of our energy like Hillary Clinton tried to do with our revolution; we must make them acutely aware that we will cast them off just like we did her if ever they try. We do not have time to compromise, we have only time to sprint for the finish line. Let’s shuck them off once and for all and work on getting this thing done like our world depends on it.

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