There is a long essay by Walter Russell Mead called The Once and Future Liberalism that discusses the dying of the Obama type world and what might come next in America.

New things will come in response to chaos and penury. I don’t think that the new things that come in the U.S. will be the same as the new things that come in Egypt. The supporting “skeleton” upon which each nation drapes its culture and economy is different. Look at poor Zimbabwe for a place where it gets ever worse, yet a new beginning never comes.

Who can write the future? (apology to Walt). All we can do is deal with the present in whatever form it comes at us. In N. America we might become a place where only justice and injustice are recognized and attempts to rectify injustice are strenuously made. Social justice, which tips the scales in favour of a list of group identities drawn up and anointed by our rulers, may have to fight to er, um justify itself.

Alternatively in N. America, maybe unfairly scorned food items, like kippers, will be given a dignified place at the grocery store. A new form of social justice?