What we all must try to do if American democracy is to survive

The week after Labor Day weekend usually signals the start of a return to serious business summer vacations over and kids back to school, fiscal years ending and new ones beginning, cleaning up and battening down for winter.

- Robert Reich

This particular week after Labor Day also marks the start of a terrifyingly high-stakes ride for America five months until the beginning of the primaries, eight until Trump's trial for seeking to overturn the 2020 election, ten until the Republican convention, in which Trump is almost certain to be nominated, 14 until the presidential election of 2024.

All the while, Trump and House Republicans will be throwing up every conceivable distraction and roadblock threatening to or actually closing the government, impeaching Joe Biden, and holding more hearings on "woke" capitalism, Hunter Biden, the alleged "weaponization" of the Justice Department and the FBI.

At this point, the polls are too close for comfort.

The question we must all ask ourselves, I believe, is what can we do between now and the election to help save American democracy? Let me try out a few answers:

- Do everything within your power to ensure that Donald Trump is not re-elected president. For some of us, this will mean taking time out of our normal lives to become more directly politically involved up to and including moving to a critical swing state.