Hello. We're Nation Indivisible.

Welcome to Nation Indivisible.

We started this little venture in our heads on November 3, 2004, when we woke up to find George Bush with a legitimate claim to the White House and our hopes for a new beginning lost to the stage fright that seems to grip Ohio whenever the eyes of the world turn her way.

But depression is no mood to start a blog in. That’s partly because it rarely leads to anything worth reading, but mostly it’s because, at least for us, the feeling that your nation is falling apart and there is nothing you can do about it leads to writers block. In our case: really bad writers block.

Flash forward four years. Lots of life changes: new degrees, new lives on new coasts, and new reasons to be a little more optimistic about the future of the world. But still there is a sense that our nation is fractured, and that established interests work for their own self-interest to keep us so. Still it seems as though we are red states and blue states, fighting against one another, fighting with one another, fighting others who challenge our right to fight on our own terms…always with the fighting. And still, getting thoughts written down is not so easy.

And then, one day in January, this appeared.



And suddenly it seemed like maybe there was a path towards an Undivided Nation. Not just that there was suddenly a politician who was willing to say all the things that we’d believed in, quietly, all these years, but that people were responding to that message, believing in that possibility, and choosing hope over fear, collectively, for the first time since September 2001. And it felt so good.

So here’s our blog. Who are we? We’re a bunch of friends, from all over. We don’t share a common political identity. We don’t have a single religious view. We don’t, generally, work in journalism or politics, but we do think about those things a lot, read widely, and enjoy writing.

These are some promises we are going to try to keep:

A: We will not be boring.

B: We will post frequently.

C: We will respond to comments, using your replies to our posts as a way to frame a conversation between you, us, and the rest of the readership.

D: We will not allow the comments section to be an endless series of non-sequiturs, and in this we will triumph over the vast majority of mainstream media.

E: We do not believe in an unbiased press. What we write will be completely biased by our own experience and beliefs. We’ll try to justify those beliefs, through the magic of hyperlinks, but we will never apologize for them. In fact, we will sign each post with a proclamation of our bias, and you can judge for yourself whether we merit listening to or not.

F: We will do out best to earn your readership. You, in turn, should tell us how we could do this better. You will also tell your friends, if you happen to like us.

Welcome.

JEK, Editor-in-Chief

Huge Obama supporter, New Englander, former reporter, current surgeon, prone to complex sentence structures