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Become FDR, BERNIE SANDERS, ZOHRAN MAMDANI, OR AOC! NOW! Or suffer defeat in the mid-terms, and 2028. Instead of being class warriors, many Democratic politicians are class worriers. They openly worry that inequalities of income, wealth, and opportunity are out of control — but they won’t fight for what must be done. I’m talking about Third-way “moderate” Democrats who focus on “suburban swing” voters. and Washington-based consultants who urge Democratic candidates to move to the “center.” This has to change. Unless Democrats stand up to the oligarchs now running this nation, there won’t be any alternative to Trump Republicanism in the future, or any reason for a Democratic Party. This should be the Democrats’ hour. With inequality at levels never before seen, with a racist trillionaire and scores of billionaires poisoning our politics, with corporate profits at record heights while most American workers struggle harder than ever just to stay afloat, with a Republican majority in Congress slashing Medicaid and food stamps to finance a tax cut for the super-rich, with the looming threat of AI destroying jobs, and with one of the most brazenly corrupt politicians in American history now occupying the Oval Office — with all of this, Democrats should be at least as loud as they were under FDR. FDR wasn’t afraid to be a class warrior: “Never before in all our history have [the monied interests] been so unified against one candidate as they stand today,” he thundered in 1936. “They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.” Unless Democrats stand up to the oligarchs now running this nation, there won’t be any alternative to Trump Republicanism in the future, or any reason for a Democratic Party. And, I won’t vote for ONE SINGLE Democrat, unless they STAND UP AGAINST THE OLIGARCHS, NOW. NONE OF YOU HAVE YET TO DO SO, other than around the edges. FULLY FDR EMBRACE THE CLASS WARFARE BATTLE BEING WAGED AGAINST US, OR SUFFERED YOUR OWN DEFEAT, VIS A VIS, MY VOTE!