It’s the fall equinox today. Day and night are balanced. California and Oregon are burning. The earth is out of balance, and so is the United States.

The Awesome and Notorious RBG finally died, 45 days before the election. Trump will ram through some anti-abortion right-wing nutjob for the Supreme Court, and McConnell will rush them through the Senate confirmation.

Some people are still holding out hope that Susan Collins will vote no. They always hope she’ll do the right thing, and she never does.

There’s a reason people are almost as angry with establishment Democrats as with the completely corrupted and spineless GOP. Neither party has done much for working people in the last 40 years. Obamacare helped; but Obama was a negotiator, not a warrior. The Republicans stopped him cold two years in.

Meanwhile the rich have kept getting richer, and the rest of us have gotten poorer. The USA’s record concentration of wealth has been stolen from ordinary workers. We need a wealth tax to get it back.

Don’t expect Biden to give us what we need, if we’re lucky enough to have him win the election. The only way we’ll get health care, affordable housing, student debt forgiveness, a Green New Deal, and significant change to our policing and prison systems is if we insist on it. The American people must lead.

Make a sign. Write an email. Tweet your legislator. The real struggle starts after the election.