Normal has been obliterated.<\/p>\n
Utterly destroyed.<\/p>\n
It was a false blanket of protection.<\/p>\n
We had an insurrection at the U.S. state capital\u00a0 in 2021.<\/p>\n
The Michigan governor was nearly kidnapped and held for ransom in 2020.<\/p>\n
This is not a Hollywood movie or tabloid rant.<\/p>\n
This is mainstream news.<\/p>\n
Just like a Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist was killed for possible dissenting views in 2018.<\/p>\n
Or how about Alexei Navalny, an opposition leader, who was poisoned in 2020.<\/p>\n
Normal is not new. Not ever will be. Not for America, or the world.<\/p>\n
Unrest still ravages the Tigray region in Ethiopia…<\/p>\n
And we still await the return of the Benin bronzes to Nigeria.<\/p>\n
Just as the Parthenon (Elgin) Sculptures are up for repatriation we can see one silver lining in that the greek godess Persephone, was returned home to Libya.<\/p>\n
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