Should progressives vote blue?

This question always reminds me of this awful guy I was with for about 2 years in my 20s. He regularly told me I was nothing without him. When I asked him to treat me with love and respect, he told me I wanted some ideal guy who didn't exist.

He yelled at me a lot. Did a lot intimidation tactics. Everything was my fault.

Also, I usually paid some or all of his rent. His cell phone was on my account cuz his credit was so bad. I loaned him money all the time that I never saw again.

The Democratic Party tells us we're nothing. That what we ask for is too much, "pie in the sky," when we know it's not.

They want our votes, our money, for us to do what they say. And if we walk away, they tell us, everything bad that happens to them will be OUR fault.

He didn't kill himself, but he did get evicted. And he told me it was all my fault. I canceled his phone line, and when he couldn't get another phone, the lack of communication, among other factors, caused him to lose his job. He told me that was my fault too.

But it's not our fault. They controlled the MSM that was silent about Biden's deficits and kept repeating the line that he was the most "electable" with NO reasons to back that up. They smeared Bernie AND US constantly.

Biden is theirs. It's all their doing. It's not on us.

Progressives have been propping up the Democratic Party for decades, just I propped up that asswipe in my 20s. And they tell us we're nothing without them. They tell us that if they lose because of THEIR concerted, deliberate, strategic choices, it's OUR fault.

That's bullshit.

We'll never know the answer to these questions as long as we allow ourselves to be intimidated, bullied, gaslighted, and denigrated.

We'll never know until we walk away, knowing that we are not responsible for them anymore.

And we can do better.

The bottom line is:

Don't let ANYONE tell you you're nothing, that justice and equality and compassion are impossible and too much to ask for.

Don't let anyone blame you for practicing democracy by exercising your vote how you want to, according to your values and needs.

Eventually I had enough. I broke up with him. Of course he again told me I would crumble without him. He told me he would kill himself if I didn't come back to him.

I took the risk and left him anyway and stayed away.

As for me being nothing without him, turns out I was just fine without him. For one, I could get a lot more done without him weighing me down and taking all my energy and a lot of my money.

I discovered a lot of strength in myself I never knew I had when I let him go.

The questions we need to ask ourselves are:

How strong can we be?
What could we do if we organized?
How far could we rise if we stood on our own?

It doesn't have to be a party.

Because we're a MOVEMENT.

How can we fundamentally change things?