The Year Is 2051 . . . September 1, 2025 Dark, but interesting (3 minutes). We all have to work to find common ground. A house divided cannot stand. Time . . . and . . . again, when ordinary citizens come together to talk things through, they leave not agreeing on everything but with good feeling toward each other. So, yes: Join Indivisible, but perhaps join Braver Angels, too. Either way, we owe it to our Founding Fathers and all those who’ve fought and died for the Constitution to step into the breach and do something. Senator Cory Booker expressed it this way yesterday: In 2012, while Hurricane Sandy was decimating New Jersey, I spent an evening driving around looking for people who needed help. In the dark of night, I saw a light swinging back and forth on top of a hill. As I got closer, I saw an elderly man holding it in front of fallen trees. I yelled, “Why are you out here?” He looked at me like I was the stupidest man in America. He pointed at the shattered wood and twisted wires, and said, “It’s dangerous – I’m standing out here to make sure no one comes along and gets hurt.” At that moment, I had just spoken to President Obama about Newark’s devastation. I had been on the phone with the Governor. But I’ve never forgotten that the most profound response I saw in the worst storm to hit my city in a century was not from someone with a title – but from a man holding up a light in a savage storm so others wouldn’t get hurt. We are in a moral moment. What we need now are people willing to stand in this storm. Will you stand up and demand justice? Will you say “not on my watch” while this administration tears down Medicaid or hurts our children? Cory Yes, it was a fundraising pitch. And yes, there’s way too much money in politics (thanks largely to the Republican Supreme Court’s Citizens United and McCutcheon decisions). But we are at a moral moment. Putin shouldn’t be murdering Ukrainians and the U.S. shouldn’t have rolled out the red carpet for him. We shouldn’t be slashing aid to the needy while extending tax cuts to billionaires and adding trillions to our Debt. Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country. We have a republic — “if we can keep it.” Have I mentioned Indivisible? Capitalism is terrific — but relies almost entirely on employees to do the actual work. Have a beautiful Labor Day.