It's Thursday, September 4, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

You know, when we think about the great clash of worldviews at our age, it really is interesting that we now have a map for it.

Now, that map is often identified as a political map. It's an electoral map. And of course, we know the colors, red and blue.

There's red America and blue America. Now, we understand there's more to the story than that,

but we also understand there's not less to the story than that.

And it is really interesting to see how when you try to understand the American people,

and let's just say as a whole, you look at the American political equation, and we're going to think of this as a worldview clash, and that's a worldview equation, how do we understand

what's really going on? Kristen Saltus Anderson, who's a worldview equation. How do we understand what's really going on?

Kristen Saltus Anderson, who's a contributing opinion writer and a Republican pollster at the New York

Times, she also moderates focus groups there for the New York Times. She wrote a guest essay

just in the recent days entitled,

Politicians are polarized, American voters, not so much. Now, I want to tell you, this same

kind of argument appears over and over again. It appears before an election cycle, during an

election cycle, after an election cycle. People want to say, oh, you see those maps,

they're red and blue. And you look at the electoral count in a presidential election,

the electoral college, yes, there's red and there's blue. The big battle is red versus blue.

And we're living in politically polarized times. The red is increasingly red and the blue

is increasingly blue. We take this so much

for granted that we don't really understand how new this is. In American politics, there have been

lines of division. There have been lines of separation. But there hasn't been the same kind of map

we have right now where you have the coastal areas, particularly in the

northeast and on the west coast, so deep blue. And you have other parts of the country where

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