When it comes to navigating America out of oligarchy, we’re in uncharted waters. With nothing but the stars to guide us, we’re stuck in a leaky vessel facing a hostile and unforgiving sea full of gunboats, glaciers, and — yes — monsters. If we sink, no rescue ships are coming for us. And to hammer home the metaphor a bit harder, it’s hurricane season.

This is all an elaborate way of saying that nothing about our political moment makes sense. And nothing suggests an easy or even a likely path toward democratizing our society, the political revolution Bernie Sanders rightly calls for. Capital’s grip on the state and its power over our lives has never been stronger — and working-class institutions have never been weaker.

You might have expected an issue on political revolution in the midst of a hard-charging presidential campaign with a popular democratic socialist on the ballot to be a bit more optimistic. But our map is one meant to show the dangers that lie ahead.