Wrestling the old normal out the door

There is a new normal out there but that day is still to arrive. It’s dawn is not yet on the horizon.

The old normal, so much of the status quo, needs to spiral from crippled to life support. It is the one thing that needs to die and get buried.

It has taken a crisis of once a century proportions to reveal the weaknesses behind the rhetoric and the structures of this, the greatest country in the world. Greatness stands solid in the storm. Strength shows in the protection of those first and most battered by disaster. Instead the winds and waves of crisis have blown and washed away words acting...