I’m not here to engage the corporate Democrats who propagate this lie about the progressive movement in debate, as they don’t propagate it because they’re mistaken. They propagate it because it reinforces a system that they’ve become too involved with not to serve, and that’s coming to an end whatever they do.

Drastic change within a few years is what can save our species from either regressing into chaos or disappearing entirely. This is apparent from my writing location in California, where ash from the many dozens of fires in the American west is making the sky turn red-orange and the air noxious to breath. Hurricanes are pummeling other parts of the country just as apocalyptically, with a large storm called Irma reaching the southwest coast a few days after Houston was hit by the category 4 storm Harvey. These kinds of things will turn into ten foot higher sea levels and vastly shrunken habitable zones by the end of the century unless carbon emissions aren’t vastly reduced by 2020.

The elites who say achieving that reduction isn’t realistic do not feel threatened by that climate outcome, and they’re redrawing their operation to last and thrive into it. Hideouts are being constructed underground, in rural areas, and on the ocean for the super rich to move into after collapse comes. Public areas are being separated into “green zones,” the heavily surveilled, usually fenced off and isolated communities of the economically secure, and the “red zones” of dilapidated homes, falling down infrastructure, and enforced desperation of everyone else. All around the NATO coalition, police are becoming militarized, media outlets and government officials are conspiring to advance propagandized war efforts against Russia and other countries, and the growing amount of poor people and refugees are being assaulted with glorified drone wars and intensified law enforcement campaigns.

The goal of Bernie Sanders supporters, and of everyone else who’s rejected what’s driving us to that fate, is to take this crisis and turn it into a rebirth for humanity. To let nothing-not media marginalization, not the robbing of our votes, not the election of a fascist, and not the coming wars and economic catastrophes-stop us from creating a better, more compassionate world. The entrenched attitudes of those enamored with the old systems don’t matter to us either-our goal is to save humanity’s future. And that’s what we’ll do.

We are going to create a civilization that coexists with the natural world. The movement to stop oil pipelines, which was taken to its current thriving state with no help from almost any prominent Democrats, will continue expanding on its victories with Standing Rock. Bills like the Energy and Natural Resources Act, which was introduced by both Republicans and Democrats, will be blocked by public resistance. And the transition to renewable energies, which isn’t compatible with the neoliberalism both parties represent, will continue the rapid expansion it’s been in for the last few years so much that the 2020 climate deadline is fulfilled.

We are going to create a far more peaceful and egalitarian society by ending the paradigm of perpetual U.S. wars. The corporate state’s propaganda narratives on Russia and Syria, which were crippled last month when the Russian DNC hack was proven false and the imperialist power establishment seemingly gave up on Syrian regime change, will continue to be undone through independent online journalism. The government’s similar activities surrounding North Korea, which were recently exposed as an effort of unprovoked U.S. aggression toward the country in an apparent attempt to finally revive the Korean War, will be defeated as well. As the American military empire collapses, this will free the world from its genocidal rule in the coming years, resulting in a crippled oil industry, trillions of more dollars for the welfare of the American people, and a vastly less violent world.

We are going to create a system that values and respects all human lives. Organized efforts to protect the rights of immigrants, Muslims and people of color will continue growing in reaction to the rise of white supremacists. The movements to remove money from politics and give all people their economic rights will reach formidable sizes as the majority of the population that’s already regressing to third world conditions confronts the coming economic chaos. The unelected Americ an power establishment will find it harder and harder to persecute whistleblowers, surveill the citizenry, advance drone warfare and the police state, and conduct psy ops while the federal government grows wildly dysfunctional and the populous looks toward local, non-centralized self-governance.

What we are doing is not about Bernie Sanders, who doesn’t support all of those goals and has stated he isn’t a savior. It’s about going into the dark moment that the evils of our old systems have culminated in, and coming out with the peaceful, socially and environmentally just social democracy that will come when those systems go away. Ignore anyone who says it can’t be done-they’re the ones that want us to stay in that dark place forever.