Join the crowd if you are growing more fearful that things are going to get more difficult in the days ahead. Many people are going to lose their jobs, financial portfolios that older Americans were counting on, are shrinking with alarming speed, and there is so much uncertainty about our Nation’s leadership from the White House, to Congress, to the local City Hall. I think we have lost our way. I see it as quite similar to a hiker who manages to miss a marker, then two, and continues to walk in a particular direction with determination that no matter how far from the established path he wanders, the destination is still…