Commentary: Time for all hands on deck to restore the social order

“Should I stay and fight, or just pack up and leave?”This was the recent query of a very intelligent, thoughtful friend trying to balance personal interest and public responsibility in these “best of times, and worst of times” which are in full raging torrent in America right now.When such a torrent builds it always seems to catch thoughtful people by surprise, a rude disruption of the halcyon present. I mean, here we smug, progressive people all were, intellectually resi